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Problem: You see that there are lot of TIME_WAIT connections associated with the Apache and Nginx (or any webserver for that matter) webservers. 

Possible Solution: To reduce the number of TIME_WAIT connections, we have done the following changes in /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1


Then run 'sysctl -p' (no quotes) as root to reload the sysctl file without a reboot. Be sure to backup the sysctl.conf file before making changes to it.

Problem: You see that there are lot of TIME_WAIT connections associated with the Apache and Nginx (or any webserver for that matter) webservers. 

Possible Solution: To reduce the number of TIME_WAIT connections, we have done the following changes in /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1


Then run 'sysctl -p' (no quotes) as root to reload the sysctl file without a reboot. Be sure to backup the sysctl.conf file before making changes to it.

Problem: You see that there are lot of TIME_WAIT connections associated with the Apache and Nginx (or any webserver for that matter) webservers. 

Possible Solution: To reduce the number of TIME_WAIT connections, we have done the following changes in /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1


Then run 'sysctl -p' (no quotes) as root to reload the sysctl file without a reboot. Be sure to backup the sysctl.conf file before making changes to it.