Howdy -

I have a client program that throws the following exception:
Address already in use: connect
java.net.BindException: Address already in use: connect

This client rapidly creates socket connections in a loop for stress
testing the server.  The server works great!  :)  I didn't expect
the client to break tho.  The last test I did, the client looped
about 4200 times on the first run, 810 times when run a few seconds
later, then about 4200 times after waiting a few minutes.

I suspect it's a garbage collection problem.  Could my program be
consuming sockets faster than the garbage collector cleans them
up?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[Sorry, not a working example.  But it is an accurate skeleton]

Socket connection;

for (int i=0; i < 5000; i++)
{
 try
 {
   connection = new Socket(server,port);
   connection.setSoTimeout(15000);
   out = connection.getOutputStream();        
   in = connection.getInputStream();

   byte[] request = new byte[1000];
   byte[] reply = new byte[1000];
   int length;

   // fill request    here
   out.write(request);

   length = in.read(reply);
   // process reply here
   
   // fill request here
   out.write(request);

   length = in.read(reply);
   // process reply here

   in.close();
   out.close();
   connection.close();
 }
}
catch (Exception e)
{
 System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 e.printStackTrace();
 System.out.println("Looped "+i);
 System.exit(1);
}