Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:42:05 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Michal Mertl <mime@traveller.cz> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: file descriptor leak in 5.2-RC Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040106144123.87887D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20031223140614.S5800@prg.traveller.cz>
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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
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