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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Michal Mertl wrote:

> > I'l try to reproduce the problem here at home and send the info.
> > Otherwise it will have to wait till monday when I'm at work.
> 
> Sorry for the late answer - I was unable to reproduce the problem at
> home and even at work it takes some time before it's obviously visible. 
> 
> Now, after ~25hours, I see it again. Fstat and lsof in single-user
> really only show small number of files (these of fstat, sh and init) yet
> kern.openfiles was 729. Output of "sysctl kern.malloc | grep 'file
> desc'"  is "file desc 47 12K 29K 6801 256". I've got all sysctl -a saved
> if anything from it might give another clue. 
> 
> I forced panic from the DDB so I've got coredump if needed. 
> 
> I think it's mozilla (and libkse) what's causing this. It seems to
> happen after many pages are loaded (I leave the computer running when I
> leave on https page which reloads every minute). At home I tried with
> self refreshing local page without SSL and the problem didn't occur. 

I've (perhaps foolishly) been on vacation for the last couple of weeks.
>From skimming messages, it looks like this problem has been resolved,
patches committed, etc.  Just wanted to send an e-mail and confirm this
was all the case...

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research