Mozilla sucking file descriptors

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:32:15PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the
> longer it runs?  I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and
> the current Firebi^WFirefox.  It just keeps going 'till it maxes out
> the system.  fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits
> a crapload of errors:
> 
> (ttyp4):{173}% fstat -v | & grep -E 'unknown file type 5 for file [0-9]+ of pid 4697' | wc -l
>     3472
> 
> (that being, of course, my current firefox PID)
> 
> File type 5 is a kqueue (according to sys/file.h).  Why is Mozilla
> eating an ever-increasing number of kqueue handles?  Is this our
> problem or theirs?  Or is this something fixed since I last updated
> (I'm on 5.1-RELEASE now)?
> 
> (In other news, thank heavens you can tweak kern.maxfiles on the fly!)

This sounds like a DNS resolver bug that was fixed some time ago.

Kris
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