J Potter wrote:

...

netstat -an|grep TIME_WAIT|wc ?

I need to avoid anything that lists out all the connections -- the above would take too long if there are tens of thousands of connections.

I'm hoping there's a proc entry that has a summary count of the current number of connections?

With the -n added to the option it won't resolve IPs so it shouldn't take that long, but otherwise:

cat /proc/net/sockstat sockets: used 284 TCP: inuse 16 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 18 mem 1 UDP: inuse 12 RAW: inuse 1 FRAG: inuse 0 memory 0

I believe the tw is the time_wait count, just:

awk '/TCP:/ {print $7}' /proc/net/sockstat

-Ross

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