gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...

[Jeffrey Racine]

Many thanks Joe. This is most helpful.

Naive question... how do I check exactly which files are open?

--  Jeff

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:48 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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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
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