Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 19:32:15 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Mozilla sucking file descriptors Message-ID: <20040315013215.GF61692@over-yonder.net>
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Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the
longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and
the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out
the system. fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits
a crapload of errors:
(ttyp4):{173}% fstat -v | & grep -E 'unknown file type 5 for file [0-9]+ of pid 4697' | wc -l
3472
(that being, of course, my current firefox PID)
File type 5 is a kqueue (according to sys/file.h). Why is Mozilla
eating an ever-increasing number of kqueue handles? Is this our
problem or theirs? Or is this something fixed since I last updated
(I'm on 5.1-RELEASE now)?
(In other news, thank heavens you can tweak kern.maxfiles on the fly!)
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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