I got too many open files on my tomcat server but I see 994 instances following connected to apache: java 14130 root 965u IPv4 30842366 TCP localhost:41838->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 966u IPv4 30842367 TCP localhost:41839->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 967u IPv4 30842371 TCP localhost:41841->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 968u IPv4 30842465 TCP localhost:41895->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 969u IPv4 30848501 TCP localhost:42415->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 970u IPv4 30842533 TCP localhost:41936->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 971u IPv4 30842468 TCP localhost:41898->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 972u IPv4 30842534 TCP localhost:41937->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 973u IPv4 30842765 TCP localhost:42062->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 974u IPv4 30842472 TCP localhost:41901->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 975u IPv4 30842122 TCP localhost:41694->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 976u IPv4 30842123 TCP localhost:41695->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 977u IPv4 30843217 TCP localhost:42188->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) java 14130 root 978u IPv4 30842125 TCP localhost:41696->localhost:http (CLOSE_WAIT) I get java.net.SocketException: Too many open files at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:384) at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:450) at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:421) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.DefaultServerSocketFactory.acceptSocket(DefaultServerSocketFactory.java:61) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Acceptor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:310) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Could you please advise? I also don't understand why CLOSE_WAIT contribute to too many open files. My file size is set to 1024 files --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx