linux emulation file descriptor leakage -current?

Vladimir Grebenschikov vova at fbsd.ru
Mon May 15 18:42:55 UTC 2006


В пн, 15/05/2006 в 09:50 -0700, Bakul Shah пишет:
> This is what happens when I start skype (NOTE: this is *not*
> limited to skype -- I see the same problem with a thunderbird
> linux binary but linux-firefox & linux-opera work fine).

same problem with skype here (fresh 7.0-CURRENT + fresh gnome)
I was forced to increase kern.maxfiles to make my system alive.

> $ skype &
> $ sudo sh -c " while sleep 3; do lsof |grep skype|wc; done"
>     4126   38134  495635
>     4196   38959  499830
>     4226   39229  502965
>     4266   39589  507145
>     4296   39859  510280
>     4336   40219  514460
>     4366   40489  517595
>     4406   40849  521775
>     4436   41119  524910
>     4476   41479  529090
>     4516   41839  533270
>     4546   42109  536405
>     4586   42469  540585
> ^C
> 
> Is this a known problem or am I in an alternate universe?
> 
> I am running -current as of yesterday, with a freshly
> installed linux_base-8 and skype.  But this has been
> happening for atleast a couple weeks and may be more.
> 
> Looking at the lsof output, about a third opens are for a
> directory, two thirds are files.  It seems to open over a
> hundred directories (all of them multiple times)!  It opens
> over 400 files (all multiple times).  Many of these files
> have nothing to do with skype!
> 
> Doing a truss shows a lot of linux_ioctl() and gettimeofday()
> on one skype_bin process and linux_times() and linux_time()
> on another process.  Doung ktrace on these processes shows
> something totally different (all sorts of syscalls).
> 
> Thanks for any help or hints on how to debug this....
> 
> -- bakul
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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
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