I have a box that is not properly closing out it's tcp connections. If I do a netstat --inet, it comes up with over 1700 connections in the state CLOSE. lsof shows all of these using up my file handles, and I am having trouble starting new processes on the box so I have to reboot it. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I have 2 machines which are identical to this one and they don't have any problems. Jay