From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 17:57:41 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 0A43B16A403 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:57:41 +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 61A4F43D53 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:57:40 +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 k9RHvdx02134; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:57:39 -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 k9RHvdS22291; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <454248B3.3070301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:58:11 -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> <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org> <1161971465.683.7.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> In-Reply-To: <1161971465.683.7.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 17:57:41 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Racine wrote: > Many thanks Joe. This is most helpful. > > Naive question... how do I check exactly which files are open? lsof is the best tool. Joe > > -- Jeff > > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 - -- 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 iD8DBQFFQkiyb2iPiv4Uz4cRAo/NAKCP+AgA0Ysj4aqsYc8q5qcQthJ55gCgr3NI 8S8d7ftsJh4Qa7AFhMjkpag= =/tQ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----