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Subject: Re: linux emulation file descriptor leakage -current?
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Quoting Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>:

>> same problem with skype here (fresh 7.0-CURRENT + fresh gnome)
>> I was forced to increase kern.maxfiles to make my system alive.
>
> This won't help as skype will eat up all available
> descriptors.  Limiting the descriptors resource in the parent
> shell of skype prevents it from running away.

It sure does.  I got up to 25,000 and killed skype and it droped to 1,800.

ed

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