connections hanging in time_wait state

[deva seetharam]

hello
we are using python memcache (ver. 1.4.0)  with
memcached version (1.2.2) in a web application with
apache2 running on debian 4.0.

we notice that when we call disconnect_all() to close
connections, the connections are not actually closed -
they are left hanging in TCP_WAIT state.


i have included below a few of the lines i got from
netstat -nt | grep -i 11211.

is there anything we can do close the connections
properly?

thanks
dave

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45965        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45964        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46001        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46000        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46006        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46004        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46011        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46009        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46008        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46015        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:46014        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45987        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45991        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45990        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45995        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45994        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45993        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45992        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45999        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45998        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45997        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:45996        
127.0.0.1:11211         TIME_WAIT 
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:11211        
127.0.0.1:46063         ESTABLISHED


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