linux emulation file descriptor leakage -current?

[eculp at bafirst.com]

Quoting Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com>:

>> same problem with skype here (fresh 7.0-CURRENT + fresh gnome)
>> I was forced to increase kern.maxfiles to make my system alive.
>
> This won't help as skype will eat up all available
> descriptors.  Limiting the descriptors resource in the parent
> shell of skype prevents it from running away.

do you mean in /usr/X11R6/bin/skype ?  I'm not sure that I know how to 
limit the descriptors unless it would be with ulimit -n.  If so, how 
many descriptors are you using to keep it running without running away?

Thanks a lot and please excuse my lack of knowledge in this case.

ed

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