listen_overflow P2 Network

TCP listen-queue dropping connections

/proc/net/netstat TcpExt ListenOverflows or ListenDrops is incrementing; the kernel is dropping arriving connections at accept-queue level. Either the application can't accept() fast enough or net.core.somaxconn is too small for the offered load.

Remediation

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