file descriptor leak in 5.2-RC

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Michal Mertl wrote:

> For several weeks now I see my -current (now RELENG_5_2 to help test the
> release) machine seems to be leaking file descriptors. After some time all
> files (up to kern.maxfiles) are consumed.
>
> I installed new kernel and world yesterday and the problem stil persists.
> The machine is used as my workstation - it's running X, fvwm2, Apache
> and Mozilla.
>
> After reboot yesterday I had about 120 files open (as seen in sysctl
> kern.openfiles). After 11 hours on inactivity (I was at home), the
> system had ~400 files open. Shutdown to singlemode reduces the number only
> a little (by ~100).

what would fstat tell you ?

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