From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 22:32:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 132BD16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:32:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 476EA43D1F for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu74-159-108.nc.rr.com [24.74.159.108])hBK6WXHG007325; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:32:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) hBK6WRL4066450; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:32:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Brian Gruber In-Reply-To: <20031202015522.GA2987@bgruber.isa-geek.com> References: <20031202015522.GA2987@bgruber.isa-geek.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-uRlBfghZHTFu4mJ5g5Z3" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1071901947.451.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:32:27 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gweather-applet eats up file descriptors X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:32:40 -0000 --=-uRlBfghZHTFu4mJ5g5Z3 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:55, Brian Gruber wrote: > Hello, >=20 > It seems that every time gweather-applet2 updates it's weather data, it > consumes 4 file descriptors (according to lsof). It never seems to give > them back until the process is killed. This is a big problem for me as > I tend to stay logged in for days at a time, and eventually there are no > more file descriptors available to new processes, which wreaks all kinds > of havoc as you can imagine. Last time I saw this problem, lsof > reported over 2700 open files belonging to gweather-applet2 (almost half > of all those on my system). for the record, this is up-to-date ports on > 5.1-RELEASE. I've seen quite a few applets that do this file descriptor dance. Have you searched the GNOME Bugzilla database for this one? File descriptor leaks are frequently fixed in CVS, so maybe this is a known issue. Joe >=20 > Thanks, > Brian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-uRlBfghZHTFu4mJ5g5Z3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/4+z7b2iPiv4Uz4cRAuO8AJ9jKFt+AWtCTujvmzCphhMHPHIqqwCfU7mf 6TMOiQ+bIf+kP9zjMsc8xa0= =Ilby -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-uRlBfghZHTFu4mJ5g5Z3--