[tpop3d-discuss] Re: Too many open files

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:32:00PM +0000, John P Connor wrote:
> 
> Just encountered another issue, which is this:
> 
> Mar 19 20:02:05 polanski tpop3d[5199]: [ID 702911 mail.error] net_loop: 
> accept: Too many open files

> :-O When I checked on the box, only the main tpop3d process was running. I 
> killed it off & re-started. Maybe loose file handles are where the mem leak 
> is ... haven't had chance to take a look, just a suggestion.

No, the memory leak is in a bit of the code which doesn't
deal with files at all.

Is it possible that the file descriptor leak is in your
perl authenticator? I haven't seen previous reports of
this error message. In any case I will investigate later.

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