On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:08:43 -0300 lucianolnx <lucianolnx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do someone could explain someting about socket that keeps its CLOSE_WAIT > state for a long time (like as 5 days or more) ? It means the application (your database in this case) isn't closing the socket. The remote side has executed the close, but your end isn't doing a close() or shutdown() on the socket for some reason. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html