gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:48:52 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
> <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 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.
> 
>> It sounds like it's worth to add about this in the known issue.

Actually, I was just reminded that I committed this fix right before 6.1
was released, so this must be something different.  However, it will
affect 6.0 and 5.5 users (who should be upgrading anyway).

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
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