gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:48:52 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>  
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.

It sounds like it's worth to add about this in the known issue.

Cheers,
Mezz

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