Re: Dropped TCP connections with 2.6.X kernel

[Chris Boot]

daveflinux@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're using a 2.6.X kernel,
>  and are experiencing intermittent dropped connections when the number 
> of concurrent connections exceeds ~ 1000.
>
>  Does anybody have any insight into what might be happening here 
> and/or troubleshooting techniques
> for isolating the problem.
> What system resources is TCP dependent on?
>
> Many thanks,
> Dave

Are all these connections handled by a single process? If so, you're 
probably running into the limit of open file descriptors (1024 usually). 
Look at 'help ulimit' to see how to increase the limit.

HTH,
Chris

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