From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 04:23:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA9816A424 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:23:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dsyphers@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD7F43D6B for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:22:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsyphers@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k2T4MuBr010115 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:22:57 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from yggdrasil.seektruth.org (c-67-171-38-33.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [67.171.38.33]) (authenticated authid=dsyphers) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k2T4MuHP026926 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:22:56 -0800 From: David Syphers To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:23:51 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603282023.51439.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CD 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: gamin opens too many files X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:23:03 -0000 I recently was getting messages about maxing out the number of open files on my system, and discovered that gam_server has gone crazy. Right after booting, opening KDE, I have nearly 2600 open files on my computer, and 2200 of those are opened by gam_server, according to fstat. And clearly that number can go up to nearly 8000, as I've got kern.maxfiles at 8136. I assume this isn't normal? Is there anything I can do to stop this? I'm running -stable from 20060327, and gamin-0.1.7_2. Thanks, -David -- "To get out of the Metaphysical Void, you either have to grasp the meaning of the universe or roll doubles twice." -Cecil Adams