From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 17:48:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org 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 AFA8F16A4A7 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A37B43D49 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:48:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k9RHmLM01451; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:48:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.193.59] (dhcp-64-102-193-59.cisco.com [64.102.193.59]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id k9RHmKS10840; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:48:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:48:52 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: racinej@mcmaster.ca References: <1161970619.683.5.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> In-Reply-To: <1161970619.683.5.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles... X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:48:22 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Racine wrote: > Hi. > > I have traced my open files issue on my machine to hald. This does not > occur on my notebook, just my desktop... > > uname -a > FreeBSD pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca 6.1 > > Symptom - if hald is enabled, the number of open files grows and > eventually hits any limit set (25000 currently). If I kill hald, files > immediately revert to a stable number... > > No hald running... > > sysctl kern.openfiles > kern.openfiles: 1208 > sleep 10 > sysctl kern.openfiles > kern.openfiles: 1208 > > hald running... > > hald > sysctl kern.openfiles > kern.openfiles: 1233 > sleep 10 > sysctl kern.openfiles > kern.openfiles: 1240 > sleep 20 > sysctl kern.openfiles > kern.openfiles: 1252 > > Looks like something is failing to close files, and any suggestions most > welcome. Since you did not actually provide a list of opened files, I cannot say for sure, but this seems like a known bug in FreeBSD 6.1 with libcam. If you upgrade to 6.2-BETA this will go away. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQkaDb2iPiv4Uz4cRAkK7AJ9oTKIaPZNXd3YYQHzhBvzmiNfpEQCfSIhN t3BeOx1p/wiw+7CtgLhypN8= =tVgB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----