Re: cfservd memory/file handle leak?

[Mark Burgess]

I woulod wait for 2.1.16 then which will be pretty much as the current
patch release. It has several bug fixes that might affect this.
M

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:16 -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Seppanen
> 608.826.1464
> 
> 
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