What is the cost of many TIME_WAIT on the server side?

Question

Let\'s assume there is a client that makes a lot of short-living connections to a server.

If the client closes the connection, there will be many ports in TIME

Answer 1

In my scenario i ran a script which schedules files repeatedly,my product do some computations and sends response to client ie client is making a repetitive http call to get the response of each file.When around 150 files are scheduled socket ports in my server goes in time_wait state and an exception is thrown in client which opens a http connection ie

 Error : [Errno 10048] Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted

The result was that my application hanged.I do not know may be threadshave gone in wait state or what has happened but i need to kill all processes or restart my application to make it work again.

I tried reducing wait time to 30 seconds since it is 240 seconds by default but it did not work.

So basically overall impact was critical as it made my application non-responsive