When a connection handles a failure (e.g. decoding exception), the underlying Netty channel is not closed unless the application explicitly calls connection.close().
This leaks socket file descriptors and Netty resources until the application closes the connection or the Vertx instance shuts down.
When a connection handles a failure (e.g. decoding exception), the underlying Netty channel is not closed unless the application explicitly calls
connection.close().This leaks socket file descriptors and Netty resources until the application closes the connection or the Vertx instance shuts down.