gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...

[Jeffrey Racine]

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.

-- Jeff


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