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Chris_Phillips
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Jul 09, 2013

Connections building up with TCP keepalive enabled

Howdy,   We recently enabeld tcp keepalives to allow some heavy backend processing not causing a timeout on some client connections. This seemed to work just fine, but we've since noticed that sin...
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pete_71470
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Jul 09, 2013
Hey Chris -- doesn't this just mean you had lots and lots of sessions that used to be idle 300 or more seconds? You've now set LTM to give sessions a nudge at 290s, allowing them to accumulate instead of being reaped, producing the build up of a huge number of connections.