> If I'm right Brett's problem relays in the test client (provided in > the first mail). This has probably to do with the number of ports > opened and closed during a short time period. My test client is designed to simulate the sort of load our production databases and web servers see. We're talking on the order of 100-400 connections per second. On an unloaded server the 3000ms occur right around 400 connections a second but we have seen them a lower connection rates. Are you suggesting that we could do something simple (like reap TIME_WAIT connections) to allevaite the problem? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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