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

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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 05:57:46 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Akshat Kakkar <akshat.1984@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Something hitting my total number of connections to the server

On Fri, 2017-08-18 at 18:14 +0530, Akshat Kakkar wrote:
> 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.

More than one hundred patches yes.

Sorry, someone else than me will have to build a list of these patches.