Go client program generates a lot a sockets in TIME_WAIT state - http

Question

I have a Go program that generates a lot of HTTP requests from multiple goroutines. after running for a while, the program spits out an error: connect: cannot assign requested address.
When checking with netstat, I get a high number (28229) of connections in TIME_WAIT.
The high number of TIME_WAIT sockets happens when I the number of goroutines is 3 and is severe enough to cause a crash when it is 5.
I run Ubuntu 14.4 under docker and go version 1.7
This is the Go program.
package main
import (
"io/ioutil"
"log"
"net/http"
"sync"
)
var wg sync.WaitGroup
var url="http://172.17.0.9:3000/";
const num_coroutines=5;
const num_request_per_coroutine=100000
func get_page(){
response, err := http.Get(url)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
} else {
defer response.Body.Close()
_, err =ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
}
func get_pages(){
defer wg.Done()
for i := 0; i < num_request_per_coroutine; i++{
get_page();
}
}
func main() {
for i:=0;i<num_coroutines;i++{
wg.Add(1)
go get_pages()
}
wg.Wait()
}
This is the server program:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"log"
)
var count int;
func sayhelloName(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
count++;
fmt.Fprintf(w,"Hello World, count is %d",count) // send data to client side
}
func main() {
http.HandleFunc("/", sayhelloName) // set router
err := http.ListenAndServe(":3000", nil) // set listen port
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("ListenAndServe: ", err)
}
}

Answer 1

The default http.Transport is opening and closing connections too quickly. Since all connections are to the same host:port combination, you need to increase MaxIdleConnsPerHost to match your value for num_coroutines. Otherwise, the transport will frequently close the extra connections, only to have them reopened immediately.
You can set this globally on the default transport:
http.DefaultTransport.(*http.Transport).MaxIdleConnsPerHost = numCoroutines
Or when creating your own transport
t := &http.Transport{
Proxy: http.ProxyFromEnvironment,
DialContext: (&net.Dialer{
Timeout: 30 * time.Second,
KeepAlive: 30 * time.Second,
}).DialContext,
MaxIdleConnsPerHost: numCoroutines,
MaxIdleConns: 100,
IdleConnTimeout: 90 * time.Second,
TLSHandshakeTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
ExpectContinueTimeout: 1 * time.Second,
}
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