sockets in 'CLOSING' state

Josh Richards (jrichard@freedom.gen.ca.us)
Sat, 7 Dec 1996 09:20:09 -0800 (PST)


Running the latest kernel:
[Linux datahaven 2.1.14 #1 Sun Dec 1 17:59:11 PST 1996 i486]

I'm getting *lots* of sockets stuck in the CLOSING state:

Active Internet connections
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (State) User
tcp 0 0 datahaven.freedom:1023 fletch.fix.net:sshd ESTABLISHED jrichard
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2703 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp fletch.fix.net:2749 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2496 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3428 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4575 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2472 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3650 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1581 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3841 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1527 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3535 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3576 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1577 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2998 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2179 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2240 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3903 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2094 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4509 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3035 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4981 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1941 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4728 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1376 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2188 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3513 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2283 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3608 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1110 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4704 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1559 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp fletch.fix.net:4587 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4250 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1841 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3956 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2375 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4946 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1619 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3350 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4204 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2087 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2100 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3168 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3735 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:2192 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4146 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4600 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3979 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1705 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1114 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4752 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3147 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1674 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3124 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1791 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:3618 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1379 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1715 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4484 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:1969 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4080 CLOSING root
tcp 1 1 datahaven.freedom:smtp nic.funet.fi:4000 CLOSING root

I also just updated my Sendmail daemon to 8.8.4. I tried completely
killing the sendmail daemon and restarting it -- no good, sockets still
there -- so it has to be something with the kernel I think (although the
latest sendmail may be triggering it).

uptime:

9:18am up 5 days, 12:56, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00

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