hi,i'm bothered by "Out of socket memory" recently. this problem happened on a tcp application server which is "Linux 2.4.21-37.ELsmp". this server accept tcp connection, process and send response, then recv next request on this connection until the client close it. can you give me some suggestion. sometimes, these values may be twice than below cat /proc/net/sockstat sockets: used 531 TCP: inuse 5683 orphan 5171 tw 5207 alloc 5686 mem 21203 UDP: inuse 2 RAW: inuse 0 FRAG: inuse 0 memory 0 cat /proc/net/netstat TcpExt: SyncookiesSent SyncookiesRecv SyncookiesFailed EmbryonicRsts PruneCalled RcvPruned OfoPruned OutOfWindowIcmps LockDroppedIcmps ArpFilter TW TWRecycled TWKilled PAWSPassive PAWSActive PAWSEstab DelayedACKs DelayedACKLocked DelayedACKLost ListenOverflows ListenDrops TCPPrequeued TCPDirectCopyFromBacklog TCPDirectCopyFromPrequeue TCPPrequeueDropped TCPHPHits TCPHPHitsToUser TCPPureAcks TCPHPAcks TCPRenoRecovery TCPSackRecovery TCPSACKReneging TCPFACKReorder TCPSACKReorder TCPRenoReorder TCPTSReorder TCPFullUndo TCPPartialUndo TCPDSACKUndo TCPLossUndo TCPLoss TCPLostRetransmit TCPRenoFailures TCPSackFailures TCPLossFailures TCPFastRetrans TCPForwardRetrans TCPSlowStartRetrans TCPTimeouts TCPRenoRecoveryFail TCPSackRecoveryFail TCPSchedulerFailed TCPRcvCollapsed TCPDSACKOldSent TCPDSACKOfoSent TCPDSACKRecv TCPDSACKOfoRecv TCPAbortOnSyn TCPAbortOnData TCPAbortOnClose TCPAbortOnMemory TCPAbortOnTimeout TCPAbortOnLinger TCPAbortFailed TCPMemoryPressures TcpExt: 33057 51482 2153429 63569 1787 0 0 969 1460 0 5731738 159 0 0 0 0 403281 308 289105 600846 600846 219253109 1026907983 3599350558 76 102669777 19425927 89743405 157838242 191481 0 0 0 0 2354 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 330316 0 282847 230452 0 876130 3361736 54284 0 5682 61757 0 0 0 0 4 486575 58822 190 912913 0 0 0 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_orphans 32768 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout 20 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem 4096 7108864 7108864 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_rmem 4096 7108864 7108864 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem 4096 7108864 7108864 cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets 180000 i appreciate any help provided Thank you - : 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