socket leak in FreeBSD 4.7

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Thu Jun 19 23:06:51 PDT 2003


I don't see this on my 4.8 or 5.x systems.  Are you running any custom
patches on that machine's kernel?

Alternately, can anyone else with a 4.7 or earlier machine replicate this
problem?

Thanks,

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Scot Loach wrote:

> If I execute the following program on a FreeBSD 4.7 system:
>
> int main()
> {
>     for (int i = 0; i < 70000; i++)
>     {
>         socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
>     }
>     return 0;
> }
> the sockets never seem to be freed.


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