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Cole_McDonald
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6 years ago

TCP Resource Exhaustion fix (?)

We're building out our custom monitoring packages for the ERP systems run by our customers.  This is resulting in TCP ephemeral port exhaustion as the connections close they enter a time_wait state...
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Mike_Rodrigues
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6 years ago

Hey @Cole McDonald, my understanding is that CLOSE_WAIT state is entered when the server closes the socket, as opposed to the client, which eventually results in TIME_WAIT. I presume your port exhaustion is due to all of the collection tasks on your collector?

There are some timeout config directives you can tweak for the various collection methods if you identify which one is using the most resources.