On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 07:32:15PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > Has anybody else seen Mozilla just start munching file descriptors the > longer it runs? I've seen it with at least Phoen^WFirebird 0.6 and > the current Firebi^WFirefox. It just keeps going 'till it maxes out > the system. fstat(1) doesn't show much directly, but with -v it spits > a crapload of errors: > > (ttyp4):{173}% fstat -v | & grep -E 'unknown file type 5 for file [0-9]+ of pid > 4697' | wc -l > 3472 > > (that being, of course, my current firefox PID) > > File type 5 is a kqueue (according to sys/file.h). Why is Mozilla > eating an ever-increasing number of kqueue handles? Is this our > problem or theirs? Or is this something fixed since I last updated > (I'm on 5.1-RELEASE now)? > > (In other news, thank heavens you can tweak kern.maxfiles on the fly!)
This sounds like a DNS resolver bug that was fixed some time ago. Kris
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