Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:32:27 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Brian Gruber <lists@bgruber.isa-geek.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gweather-applet eats up file descriptors Message-ID: <1071901947.451.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20031202015522.GA2987@bgruber.isa-geek.com> References: <20031202015522.GA2987@bgruber.isa-geek.com>
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--=-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--
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