[tpop3d-discuss] Re: Too many open files

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:32:00PM +0000, John P Connor wrote:
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> 
> 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
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> 
> 
> :-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.

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