Port Connections Persistent

[SHABU KHAN]

Hi All,

I have a web server SUN OS 5.8 (sun4u sparc architecture) running iPlanet, there are about 100 connections to one external interface, this is not normal (normal is 10 or max 20 connections)...

lsof -p | grep TCP shows about 100 connections (different ports obviously) ..

I executed snoop to find out if there are any activities on these ports and found that there are none but all of them show ESTABLISHED.

I assume those are hung connections or atleast after an activity it didn't close the connection.

When I recycle the web instance it is back to normal (so basically this particular web instance need to be recycled daily), I don't want to do that...

I was wondering if there is any way that this problem could be fixed WITHOUT BOUNCING the web instance.

Any thoughts, suggestions will be much appreciated.

Let me know if you guys need more information..

Thanks,
Shabu

[Ron Kinner]

Believe you need to set the idle circuit disconnect time via your iplanet management console.

You'd probably have better luck asking on the sun forum.

http://softwareforum.sun.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=181&RPAGEID=0

Sort of like this one except you get your picture on the front page if you have the top hat.

Ron

[SHABU KHAN]

Thanks Ron !

I will post that on the SUN forum too..

-Shabu

[SHABU KHAN]

All,

This can be closed.

The issue was within iPlanet configuration. It couldn't find an xml file and was marking it as bad and opening up another connection and that is why it grew.. we added a symbolic link to the xml file and the problem seems to have been resolved.

Thanks,
Shau