Re: How can I limit the sockets mysql opens?

why do you want to limit the sockets to a dozen, the sockets are created/closed dynamically depending on the current connections from clients, so if your server is not servicing many clients they will automatically be reduced , also in your case is this a slave??? , as the src and dest ip's look to

How can I limit the sockets mysql opens?

Netstat -a shows the following: tcp0 0 iepm-bw.slac.stanford:54335 iepm-bw.slac.stanford.:1000 TIME_WAIT tcp0 0 iepm-bw.slac.stanford:54334 iepm-bw.slac.stanford.:1000 TIME_WAIT tcp0 0 iepm-bw.slac.stanford:54333 iepm-bw.slac.stanford.:1000 TIME_WAIT tcp