You were exceeding the amount of socket buffer memory available there.
i'm aware of that. the question is why?
The literal answer is that this pool of open connections with lots of unsent data is clogging things up. Why those connections are not going away is the real question to figure out....
FIN_WAIT_1 means that one side of the TCP conversation sent a FIN, and
the other side (yours) wants to flush the queue of unsent data and will
then close the connection. It's not clear why this isn't working, and
there is a timer which gets started which ought to close the connection
after 10 minutes or so if no data can be sent.
well that was what i was suggesting in my post but the sever is set to cut
inactive connections after 10 seconds - not minutes. is there any other
timer i'm missing here?
You are probably referring to the KeepAlive directive in the Apache config file, but there are other timers present in the TCP stack itself: specificly, the one described in RFC-793 around section 3.5, involving a 2 * MSL wait:
"3.5. Closing a Connection
CLOSE is an operation meaning "I have no more data to send." The notion of closing a full-duplex connection is subject to ambiguous interpretation, of course, since it may not be obvious how to treat the receiving side of the connection. We have chosen to treat CLOSE in a simplex fashion. The user who CLOSEs may continue to RECEIVE until he is told that the other side has CLOSED also. Thus, a program could initiate several SENDs followed by a CLOSE, and then continue to RECEIVE until signaled that a RECEIVE failed because the other side has CLOSED. We assume that the TCP will signal a user, even if no RECEIVEs are outstanding, that the other side has closed, so the user can terminate his side gracefully. A TCP will reliably deliver all buffers SENT before the connection was CLOSED so a user who expects no data in return need only wait to hear the connection was CLOSED successfully to know that all his data was received at the destination TCP. Users must keep reading connections they close for sending until the TCP says no more data."
-- -Chuck
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