Re: negative tcp_tw_count and other TIME_WAIT weirdness?

[Nivedita Singhvi]

John Salmon wrote:

> Another question - is there any chance that this bug could be
> responsible for a slowdown in network processing.  Some of my machines
> get themselves into a state in which their ability to serve
> network traffic (they're running squid) is significantly reduced -
> perhaps by a factor of two.  I wish I had more specific data, but at
> this point it's a mystery.  What I'm really wondering is whether
> there's any chance at all that this kernel bug could be behind my
> performance problem, or should I look elsewhere.
> 
> TIA,
> John Salmon

John, thanks for the earlier info you gave me, but
could you also give us your netstat -s output? For
example, are you seeing a lot of tcp memory pressure?
aborts? failures?

thanks,
Nivedita