apache/spark — pull request #1220 by aarondav (2014-06-25 23:10:34+00:00)
Title: SPARK-2282: Reuse PySpark Accumulator sockets to avoid crashing Spark

JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2282

This issue is caused by a buildup of sockets in the TIME_WAIT stage of TCP, which is a stage that lasts for some period of time after the communication closes.

This solution simply allows us to reuse sockets that are in TIME_WAIT, to avoid issues with the buildup of the rapid creation of these sockets.