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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:34:06 -0500
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        racinej@mcmaster.ca, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnome 2.16.1, hald, and openfiles...
Message-ID:  <op.th3e64ks9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <1161970619.683.5.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> <45424684.4060203@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:48:52 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.or=
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wrote:

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> Jeffrey Racine wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have traced my open files issue on my machine to hald. This does no=
t
>> 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, file=
s
>> 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 m=
ost
>> welcome.
>
> Since you did not actually provide a list of opened files, I cannot sa=
y
> 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

> Joe
> - --
> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
> FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
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