mtfuri@fibimail.co.il wrote:
> Hellow,
> I have two Aix 5.2 boxes. The first one run websphere 5.02 and the
> second one runs Oarcle 10. I know I have a bug in the application
> running on the websphere side. Due to this bug sockets are not closed
> an stay forever in close_wait situation. The socket can be seen only
> from the webspher side. I have waited for some hourse
> but the are stiil open
> tcp4 0 0 WebsphereHost.33441 OracleHost.1521 CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp4 0 0 WebsphereHost.33443 OracleHost.1521 CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp4 0 0 WebsphereHost.33445 OracleHost.1521 CLOSE_WAIT
>
> I know it is possible to say to which procees on the WebSphere
> Side those processes belong to (lsof -i) but I dont want to kill this
> Java process. My question is how to "kill" those sockets
> or force them to disappear during the weakend....

Did you try rmsock? In some cases it worked for me. Still
this is not a good solution. Get your App. fixed as soon
as possible!

Regards,

Frank