From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 1:37:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCEA155F9 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:37:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11okTK-0008GU-00; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:36:50 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: daniel B Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'sockstat' shows named opened 80+ sockets! In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:40:31 PST." Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:36:50 +0200 Message-ID: <31773.943004210@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:40:31 PST, daniel B wrote: > This might sound absurd, but I did 'sockstat' and I saw that named was > listed some 80 times: USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS > root named 134 4 udp *.1735 *.* > root named 134 6 tcp > root named 134 7 tcp Either named has a file descriptor leak, or your named is heavily worked (in which case don't worry) or sockstat is showing you all file descriptors instead of showing only those which reference sockets. If the number of open file descriptors reported by sockstat doesn't continue to increase without limit, then your named is probably just a busy body. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message