Should you raise the file‑descriptor limit or enable TCP_TW_REUSE to prevent connection‑pool exhaustion on NAT‑exposed hosts?
Goal Select a mitigation that reliably prevents intermittent connection‑pool exhaustion on Unix hosts handling high‑churn outbound traffic. Constraints TCP_TW_REUSE is unsafe on systems that act as NAT routers or that rely on TIME_WAIT for duplicate‑packet suppression. Raising the per‑process file‑descriptor limit can hide application‑level leaks and require