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<p>In Linux, in order to avoid running out of sockets you can use
the following as root:</p>
<b><pre>echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle </pre></b>
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I'm not sure how your Linux install is set, just wanted to mention that I once wrote a bot to monitor svn commits and it had this problem and netstat would uncover many <b><pre>TIME_WAIT</pre></b> still opened but unused connections.
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<p>
Here are some docs that describe what tcp_tw_recycle does(Taken from [http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt|ip-sysctl.txt]):
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<b>
<pre>
tcp_tw_recycle - BOOLEAN
Enable fast recycling TIME-WAIT sockets. Default value is 0.
It should not be changed without advice/request of technical
experts.
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