gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...

Fri Oct 27 17:48:22 UTC 2006

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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.

Joe
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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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