Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:48:52 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: racinej@mcmaster.ca Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles... Message-ID: <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1161970619.683.5.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> References: <1161970619.683.5.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca>
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-----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-----
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