How do I prevent Socket/Port Exhaustion?

Question

I am attempting to performance test a website by hitting it with requests across multiple threads. Each thread executes n times. (in a for loop)

However, I

Answer 1

It's not an issue of closing sockets or releasing resources in your app. The TIME _WAIT is a TCP stack timeot on released sockets to prevent their re-use until such time as it is virtually impossible for any packets 'left over' from a previous connection to that socket to not have expired.

For test purposes, you can reduce the wait time from the default, (some minutes, AFAIK), to a smaller value. When load-testing servers, I set it at six seconds.

It's in the registry somewhere - you'll find it if you Google.

Found it:

Change TIME_WAIT delay