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the initial tests seemed fine, which leads me to conclude that the bug is somewhere with connection testing (it seems to be running out of handles - so probably a bug with closing sockets properly when running tests
which reminds me.. about excessive handle usage in the past...
While i was tinkering with firewall rules... I got an alert of too many handles in use.. I looked at my ABPmon graph and it showed a definite rampup of handle use over a 20 minute period, until it rose to the level needed to trigger the alert warning. I then looked at the handles column in TaskInfo and WCS was using nearly 1000 handles by itself. A quick look at the list showed the vast majority were for sockets.
Seems the firewall rule was blocking some WCS traffic.. but even so, shouldn't WCS be able to close the blocked sockets after xx sec/min?
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