Re: [Gnash] Gnash soaks up X client connections?

[Braden McDaniel]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 20:20 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> >         $ gnome-terminal
> >         Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> >         Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
> > 
> > Now, I don't for sure that this problem is related to Gnash. But it
> > *does* go away if I "killall -9 gnash".
> 
> Go into /proc for some of those gnash's, and see what file descriptors
> they have open.  If you find one with fifty connections to the X server,
> you've found a bug... 
> 
> Some web pages bring in NUMEROUS dumb little flash movies, for simple
> animations and navigation and such.  Thus you might have ten copies of
> gnash running -- but each one should only take up one or two connections
> to the X server.

Does this look suspicious?

        address@hidden ~]$ ps -A | grep gnash
        12298 ?        00:00:01 gnash
        12301 ?        00:00:01 gnash
        14559 ?        00:00:00 gnash
        14754 ?        00:00:00 gnash
        14914 ?        00:00:41 gnash
        15070 ?        00:00:01 gnash
        15405 ?        00:14:03 gnash
        address@hidden ~]$ ll /proc/12298/fd/
        total 0
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 0 -> pipe:[247831]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 1 -> pipe:[244716]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 10 -> pipe:[247845]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 11 -> pipe:[247845]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 12 -> socket:[247846]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 13 -> /tmp/tmpfSpS5hn 
(deleted)
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 15 -> inotify
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 16 -> 
/home/braden/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/.parentlock
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 17 -> pipe:[245590]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 18 -> pipe:[245590]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 19 -> pipe:[245591]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 2 -> pipe:[244716]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 20 -> pipe:[245591]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 23 -> 
/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.10/chrome/classic.jar
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 24 -> 
/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.10/chrome/toolkit.jar
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 25 -> 
/usr/lib64/firefox-1.5.0.10/chrome/en-US.jar
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 29 -> socket:[247725]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 3 -> 
/home/braden/gnash-dbg.log (deleted)
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 30 -> socket:[247097]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 31 -> 
/home/braden/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache.Trash/Trash/Cache/_CACHE_MAP_
 (deleted)
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 32 -> 
/home/braden/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache.Trash/Trash/Cache/_CACHE_001_
 (deleted)
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 33 -> 
/home/braden/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache.Trash/Trash/Cache/_CACHE_002_
 (deleted)
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 34 -> 
/home/braden/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache.Trash/Trash/Cache/_CACHE_003_
 (deleted)
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 35 -> socket:[247591]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 36 -> socket:[247160]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 37 -> socket:[247829]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 38 -> socket:[247209]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 39 -> socket:[247309]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 4 -> pipe:[245271]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 40 -> socket:[247229]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 41 -> socket:[247238]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 42 -> socket:[247623]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 43 -> socket:[247620]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 44 -> socket:[247284]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 45 -> socket:[247295]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 46 -> socket:[247310]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 47 -> socket:[247337]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 48 -> socket:[247490]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 49 -> socket:[247506]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 5 -> pipe:[245271]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 50 -> socket:[247551]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 51 -> socket:[247450]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 52 -> socket:[247624]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 53 -> socket:[247628]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 54 -> socket:[247739]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 55 -> socket:[247722]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 56 -> socket:[247744]
        lrwx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 57 -> socket:[247787]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 58 -> pipe:[247831]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 6 -> pipe:[245272]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 7 -> pipe:[245272]
        lr-x------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 8 -> pipe:[245273]
        l-wx------ 1 braden braden 64 Apr 19 23:16 9 -> pipe:[245273]
        

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