A growing backlog of sockets waiting for the application to close its side usually points at lifecycle handling. Here is the hunt from ss output to the pool timeout that caused it.
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Your service is collecting thousands of CLOSE_WAIT sockets. What does that state mean and how do you hunt the cause?
A growing backlog of sockets waiting for the application to close its side usually points at lifecycle handling. Here is the hunt from ss output to the pool timeout that caused it.
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