The important question here is not the connections in FIN_WAIT. It’s “why do you have so many sockets in ESTABLISHED state?”
First thing to do is to run netstat -ant | grep tcp and see where these connections are to. Do you have a configuration that is causing an endless loop of requests? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 9, 2019, at 9:57 PM, Anoop Alias <anoopalia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Have had a really strange issue on a Nginx server configured as a reverse > proxy wherein the server stops responding when the network connections in > ESTABLISHED state and FIN_WAIT state in very high compared to normal working > > If you see the below network graph, at around 00:30 hours there is a big > spike in network connections in FIN_WAIT state, to around 12000 from the > normal value of ~20 > > https://i.imgur.com/wb6VMWo.png > > At this state, Nginx stops responding fully and does not work even after a > full restart of the service. > > Switching off Nginx and bring Apache service to the frontend (removing the > reverse proxy) fix this and the connections drop > > Nginx config & build setting > ################################## > nginx -V > nginx version: nginx/1.15.8 > built by gcc 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36) (GCC) > built with LibreSSL 2.8.3 > TLS SNI support enabled > configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx > --modules-path=/etc/nginx/modules --with-pcre=./pcre-8.42 --with-pcre-jit > --with-zlib=./zlib-1.2.11 --with-openssl=./libressl-2.8.3 > --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error_log > --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access_log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid > --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock > --http-client-body-temp-path=/dev/shm/client_temp > --http-proxy-temp-path=/dev/shm/proxy_temp > --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/dev/shm/fastcgi_temp > --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/dev/shm/uwsgi_temp > --http-scgi-temp-path=/dev/shm/scgi_temp --user=nobody --group=nobody > --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module > --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module > --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module > --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module > --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module > --with-http_auth_request_module --with-file-aio --with-threads --with-stream > --with-stream_ssl_module --with-http_slice_module --with-compat > --with-http_v2_module > --add-dynamic-module=incubator-pagespeed-ngx-1.13.35.2-stable > --add-dynamic-module=/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.3/gems/passenger-6.0.0/src/nginx_module > --add-dynamic-module=ngx_brotli --add-dynamic-module=echo-nginx-module-0.61 > --add-dynamic-module=headers-more-nginx-module-0.32 > --add-dynamic-module=ngx_http_redis-0.3.8 > --add-dynamic-module=redis2-nginx-module > --add-dynamic-module=srcache-nginx-module-0.31 > --add-dynamic-module=ngx_devel_kit-0.3.0 > --add-dynamic-module=set-misc-nginx-module-0.31 > --add-dynamic-module=ngx_http_geoip2_module > --add-dynamic-module=testcookie-nginx-module > --add-dynamic-module=ModSecurity-nginx --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall > -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong > --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic' > --with-ld-opt=-Wl,-E > > ##################################### > # worker_processes auto; #Set to auto for a powerful server > worker_processes 1; > worker_rlimit_nofile 69152; > worker_shutdown_timeout 10s; > # worker_cpu_affinity auto; > timer_resolution 1s; > thread_pool iopool threads=32 max_queue=65536; > pcre_jit on; > pid /var/run/nginx.pid; > error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log; > > #Load Dynamic Modules > include /etc/nginx/modules.d/*.load; > > > events { > worker_connections 20480; > use epoll; > multi_accept on; > accept_mutex off; > } > > lingering_close off; > limit_req zone=FLOODVHOST burst=200; > limit_req zone=FLOODPROTECT burst=200; > limit_conn PERSERVER 60; > client_header_timeout 5s; > client_body_timeout 5s; > send_timeout 5s; > keepalive_timeout 0; > http2_idle_timeout 20s; > http2_recv_timeout 20s; > > > aio threads=iopool; > aio_write on; > directio 64m; > output_buffers 2 512k; > > tcp_nodelay on; > > types_hash_max_size 4096; > server_tokens off; > client_max_body_size 2048m; > reset_timedout_connection on; > > #Proxy > proxy_read_timeout 300; > proxy_send_timeout 300; > proxy_connect_timeout 30s; > > #FastCGI > fastcgi_read_timeout 300; > fastcgi_send_timeout 300; > fastcgi_connect_timeout 30s; > > #Proxy Buffer > proxy_buffering on; > proxy_buffer_size 128k; > proxy_buffers 8 128k; > proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k; > > #FastCGI Buffer > fastcgi_buffer_size 128k; > fastcgi_buffers 8 128k; > fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k; > > server_names_hash_max_size 2097152; > server_names_hash_bucket_size 128; > ###################################################### > > > > -- > Anoop P Alias > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > nginx@nginx.org > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
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