netdev - Re: Something hitting my total number of connections to the server

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Message-ID: <CAA5aLPjNL0tDXjnPkTcBF8x+HqauQfWQVqWqKggLGqSdsg3Gog@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:14:26 +0530
From:   Akshat Kakkar <akshat.1984@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Something hitting my total number of connections to the server

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 14:44 +0530, Akshat Kakkar wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 14:35 +0530, Akshat Kakkar wrote:
>> >
>> >> I upgraded to 4.4 but still experiencing same issue.
>> >> Please help.
>> >
>> > Still too old kernel, shoot again ;)
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> Sorry but that's the maximum I can try as of now as its the LT version.
>>
>> Besides, this issue was not present in 2.6.32 but came with 3.10 and
>> still there in 4.4, so I doubt if it has to do with some kernel and/or
>> kernel parameters much as you guys are good enough not to keep an
>> issue for so long (around 3 years).
>>
>> So please help.
>
> netdev is the developer list.
>
> We deal with recent kernels only. Because we already spent time fixing
> all these issues, we are not going to spend time fixing old kernels.
>
> Please to your distro provider to backport the needed patches.
>
>
>
I appreciate that.
Can you just recall if there was any such issue which was fixed after 4.4.