SUMMARY: TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 with netstat

From: SIMEONE, Allan J. <Allan.SIMEONE_at_rp-rorer.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:36:50 -0500

Hi,

Sorry for the late summary on this. thanks for the responses and
as always, they were excellent.

The fix for the time_wait and fin_wait was to add to the sysconfigtab
file the following...

proc:

        max-proc-per-user=512
        max-threads-per-user=2048
        maxusers=64

of course this was done through utilities and not directly :-)

The key was the error in my file for maxuprc with the uid of 65534.
This uid is for the user "nobody" which multiple netscape servers
run from on this system. Thus the trace back to the netstat command
problem. No problems since changing these parameters.

original question follows.

thanks,
Allan
> ----------
> From: SIMEONE, Allan J.
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 1999 11:00 AM
> To: 'Alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT_2 with netstat
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with netstat running DU V4.0D patch kit 3.
> This problem also existed before the upgrade last weekend which
> was running DU V4.0B.
>
> When I do the netstat command, the response time is extremely slow.
> I get FIN_WAIT_w and TIME_WAIT states. I also get one line
> with 3 question marks on it (???) then after that line, the protocol
> udp comes up and the info scrolls down the screen with no problem.
>
> I'm told there is a problem with a particular site connecting to this
> machine
> where the connection time is slow, but after finally entering the system,
> the response time is normal. Other sites connecting to this system
> is normal. The connections are done through telnet and the web as this
> is a webserver. I see no problems from my local workstation to the
> system.
>
> I assume I have to find the network port that is giving us the problem
> and then deal with the app itself, but I'm not sure how to go through
> that process (finding the network port that is giving the problem)
>
> I only see one problem in my log files and that is in the kern.log. The
> error is
> this....
>
> vmunix: task_create() failed for pid 1415: maxuprc (=64) exceeded for uid
> 65534.
>
> netstat -ai shows no errors.
>
> We are using FDDI.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on this?
>
> thanks,
> Allan
>
Received on Tue Jan 26 1999 - 22:43:54 NZDT

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