On 2/4/2011 1:29 PM, Andrew Kerr wrote: > Since the machine isn't even opening up a socket, it makes me think you are hitting either a connection limit or related file limit. It won't open the connection once the listen queue has filled up (if it did then all that would happen is the box would run out of kernel memory). The problem is likely that the thread which calls accept() is not processing the new connections as fast as they arrive. Once that state is achieved, the queues fill and SYNs will be dropped.
