I have lots of sockets tied to pid 1 (systemd) in CLOSE-WAIT, anyway to get rid of these?

[lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Poettering)]

On Di, 19.06.18 17:21, Christopher Cox (ccox at endlessnow.com) wrote:

> Not sure what happened, but on one of our CentOS 7 host we had like 64
> socket connects owned by pid 1 (systemd) in CLOSE-WAIT state.  And systemctl
> -a shows a bunch of lines like:
> 
> check_mk at 11305-10.32.50.31:6556-10.32.3.10:55106.service  (corresponding to
> the 64 CLOSE-WAIT connections)
> 
> I tried shutting down the socket and service and was able to get rid of the
> CLOSE-WAIT sockets, however the entries in systemctl persist.  Is there
> anyway to clear out those (they are now in  loaded failed failed
> state).

What's the precise "systemctl status" output for a "check_mk at .service"
instance like this?

My educated guess is that these instances of this per-connection
service has failed, and is thus not GC'ed by systemd. It's generally
wise to use the "-" modifier in ExecStart= in services like this, so
that failures of the per-connection processes are
ignored. Alternatively, with more recent systemd versions you can also
set CollectMode=inactive-or-failed in the service's unit file, so that
the failure is recorded normally, but the unit is unloaded anyway on GC.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat