Re: cfservd memory/file handle leak?

[Mark Burgess]

Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade! :)

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:46 -0700, Iain Morgan wrote:
> I've seen situations where cfservd (2.1.13) on Solaris accumulates threads
> over time. The threads don't get expired. Presumably if this happens over
> a protracted period it could eventually prevent cfservd from accepting
> new connections.
> 
> --
> Iain Morgan
> 
> On Thu Sep 22 10:50:09 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> > 
> > I've seen cfservd stops accepting connections before, but sadly I didn't
> > get enough information about it to say why. Linux / 2.1.15.
> > 
> > -Jason Martin
> > 
> > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Paul Krizak wrote:
> > > 
> > > > It appears that cfservd is leaking file handles and 
> > > (possibly) memory. 
> > > > I ran
> > > > cfagent -qB on 1225 hosts twice in a 24-hour period (~12 
> > > hrs between each 
> > > > run) and cfservd is now using over 120M of memory and is 
> > > using 3705 file 
> > > > descriptors.  When it reaches the shell limit of 4096 file 
> > > descriptors, 
> > > > cfservd locks and refuses to accept more connections, 
> > > though the process does 
> > > > not die.
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody else experienced this?  I hate to take the windoze 
> > > > approach and
> > > > just restart cfservd every morning.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I've seen the growth of memory utilization, I've also see it 
> > > stop taking 
> > > connections after a certain point..  I've seen this with 
> > > 2.1.10 and still 
> > > with 2.1.13.  I'm not planning on going to 2.1.15 until I have my 
> > > environment a bit more under control.  Right now I have cfagent kill 
> > > cfservd every night at midnight.  It then restarts it later 
> > > in the morning 
> > > after backups and whatnot are done.
> > 
> > 
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