Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:27:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, scrappy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does a pipe take a socket ... ? Message-ID: <200705151827.l4FIR9Yk007652@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200705151714.l4FHEEhH030766@lurza.secnetix.de>
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:Marc G. Fournier wrote:
: > For those that remmeber the other day, I had that swzone issue, where I ran out
: > of swap space? I just about hit it again today, swap was up to 99% used ... I
: > was able to get a ps listing in, and there were a whack of find processes
: > running ...
: >
: > Now, I think I know which VPS they were running in, so that isn't a problem ...
: > and I suspect that the find was just part of a longer pipe ... I'm just curious
: > if those pipes would happen to use up any of those sockets that are
: > 'evaporating', or is this totally unrelated to sockets?
:
:In FreeBSD, pipe() is implemented with the socketpair(2)
:system call. Every pipe uses two sockets (one for each
:endpoint).
:
:Best regards
: Oliver
:
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:Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M.
Nuh uh. pipe() is a direct implementation... no sockets anywhere.
Using socketpair() will eat sockets up, but using pipe() will not.
-Matt
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