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How To Forcefully Close FIN_WAIT2 Stale Connection (Doc ID 2396675.1)

Last updated on MARCH 08, 2023

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.9 to Oracle Linux 7.4 [Release OL6U9 to OL7U4]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64
Linux x86

Goal

Due to known issue with UEK4 and FIN_WAIT2 which is explained in km note:

Linux NFS Mount on HP NAS Server Suffers from Intermittent Hangs and Timeouts (Doc ID 2390756.1)

Client system is now affected by many stale FIN_WAIT2 connections:

# netstat -peantu |grep 1.1.1.1
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -
tcp 0 0 1.1.1.1:0000 2.2.2.2:1111 FIN_WAIT2 0 3563844596 -

How above connections can be closed forcefully ?

Solution

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