Issues with ssh-agent connecting to a large number of hosts at once

[Bryan Sant]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Bob Belnap <bbelnap at gmail.com> wrote:
> while pegging the cpu.  Tracking the number of connections to the agent once
> every second (while true; do netstat -an | grep -c <agent socket name>;
> sleep 1) looks like:
>
> 5
> 5
> 5
> 35
> 98
> 154
> 155
> 200
> 287
> 287

Bob, what state are your sockets in when you run netstat?  Do you have
a bunch of sockets in the TIME_WAIT or CLOSE_WAIT state?

-Bryan