[tpop3d-discuss] Re: Too many open files

[Chris Elsworth]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:06:21PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> 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
> > Mar 19 20:02:23 polanski last message repeated 62776 times
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > :-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.
> 
> I can't reproduce this here. The running tpop3d doesn't
> create additional file descriptors, as checked by looking
> at /proc/$pid/fd on Linux. I don't know what tool you can
> use to test this on Solaris.

I'll have a play with Purify, if someone can tell me the test
conditions and how to recreate it?

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Chris Elsworth  -  Software & Systems Developer  /  Systems Administrator