Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:51:05 -0400 From: Jeffrey Racine <racinej@mcmaster.ca> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles... Message-ID: <1161971465.683.7.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> In-Reply-To: <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org> References: <1161970619.683.5.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org>
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Many thanks Joe. This is most helpful. Naive question... how do I check exactly which files are open? -- Jeff On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----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----- -- Professor J. S. Racine Phone: (905) 525 9140 x 23825 Department of Economics FAX: (905) 521-8232 McMaster University e-mail: racinej@mcmaster.ca 1280 Main St. W.,Hamilton, URL: http://www.economics.mcmaster.ca/racine/ Ontario, Canada. L8S 4M4 `The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance'
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