Intermittent 'connection reset by peer' messages

I’ve been running influxdb 1.7.9 for some time and am intermittently seeing ‘connection reset by peer’ messages when sending line protocol data with python

for example:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./mdt_client_stats.py”, line 61, in
p=urllib2.urlopen(url+‘/write?db=lustre’,export_stats())
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 154, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 431, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 449, in _open
‘_open’, req)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 409, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1258, in https_open
context=self._context, check_hostname=self._check_hostname)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1214, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer>

Our server is using a wildcard commercial SSL cert, and validates OK. What I’m seeing in the influx server logs are the 401 response (as expected) but nothing else, whereas a successful write has the 401 followed by the authorized 204, ie

[root@glacier ~]# journalctl -f | grep <ip>
May 22 19:40:55 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - - [22/May/2020:19:40:55 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 401 55 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 191afc42-9c21-11ea-8eba-ecebb89a8104 69
May 22 19:40:57 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - - [22/May/2020:19:40:57 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 401 55 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 1a21e107-9c21-11ea-8ec9-ecebb89a8104 80
May 22 19:40:58 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - - [22/May/2020:19:40:58 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 401 55 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 1ae3c255-9c21-11ea-8ed4-ecebb89a8104 79
May 22 19:40:59 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - - [22/May/2020:19:40:59 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 401 55 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 1ba3d3c0-9c21-11ea-8ee5-ecebb89a8104 60
May 22 19:41:01 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - - [22/May/2020:19:41:01 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 401 55 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 1c782cd6-9c21-11ea-8efd-ecebb89a8104 80
May 22 19:41:01 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - mdtscript [22/May/2020:19:41:01 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 204 0 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 1c79ce47-9c21-11ea-8eff-ecebb89a8104 48526
May 22 19:41:03 glacier influxd[6573]: [httpd] <ip> - - [22/May/2020:19:41:03 +0800] "POST /write?db=lustre HTTP/1.1" 401 55 "-" "Python-urllib/2.7" 1df2da63-9c21-11ea-8f45-ecebb89a8104 71

(the above is from me repeatedly running the script on command line from client - it failed 6/7 times)

The script is pushing approximately 2300 points at a time, each with 3 tags and between 1 and 15 entries in the field_set - is this unreasonable? I’m not aware of seeing this when I’m sending fewer points (o 1-5) at a time.

Upgrading to influxdb-1.8.0-1.x86_64 doesn’t seem to have helped (from https://repos.influxdata.com/centos/\$releasever/\$basearch/stable)

Any suggestions?

Andrew