[erlang-questions] phantom ports in erlang:ports()

[Valentin Micic]

I guess, a more interesting questions is weather or not sockets in this state may be seen as "phantom" ports?

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On 16 Nov 2012, at 11:32 AM, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:

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> On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Valentin Micic <valentin@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> I am wondering if this may be attributed to CLOSE_WAIT/TIME_WAIT states sockets may be in during the connection shutdown?
>> By the some token, if the server in question has a higher frequency of short-lived connections,  this may also explain discrepancy between number of file descriptors as reported by lsof and number of active ports reported by emulator.
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> TIME_WAIT is not a problem. It is just the kernel keeping track of the connection if packets get sent still by the other end. CLOSE_WAIT on the other hand sounds bad. This state should happen when the other end has sent a FIN and started to close down the socket, but the application (i.e., Erlang?) has not closed the socket down yet.
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> If you have lingering CLOSE_WAITs that are there for a long time it is usually a warning sign that something may be bad.
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> Jesper Louis Andersen
>  Erlang Solutions Ltd., Copenhagen
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