Mark, This won't solve your problem, but connections in TIME_WAIT state aren't open anymore ;) The socket info is kept just for being able to receive any "lost" and "detoured" packets from the network for that connection. There's Linux kernel parameter tcp_fin_timeout which you can tune lower - that closed sockets connection data would be cleared out sooner. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/wasce/V1.0.1.1/en/Tasks/Tuning/Linux.html Reducing this for LAN networks shouldn't be much of a problem, as generally the packets there don't get detoured and lost that often. I have never changed it myself though, don't have an idea about its side effects.. Tanel. > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bobak, Mark > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 21:47 > To: Alex Gorbachev > Cc: oracle-l > Subject: RE: Weirdness with 'ons' process.... > > Hi Alex, > > No, I mean there are 41,446 distinct open connections in > TIME_WAIT state and 63,961 distinct open connections on the > other node. Those numbers were a reference to the total > aggregate number of connections on port > 6101 on each node, not a reference to the source port number. > Running 'netstat -an|grep -c ":6101 "' takes several minutes. > > -Mark -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l