Re: cfservd memory/file handle leak?

[Paul Krizak]

Followup:

I restarted cfservd and did a fresh run of cfagent -qB on the 1225 
hosts, and here's a summary of the open files:

      # TYPE NAME
      3 CHR
      1 DIR /
      1 DIR /home/skaven/.fluxbox
      1 IPv4 (LISTEN)
      1 REG /lib64/ld-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
      1 REG /lib64/libdb-4.1.so
      1 REG /lib64/libdl-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/libnsl-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/libnss_dns-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/libnss_files-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/libnss_nis-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/libresolv-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/tls/libm-2.3.2.so
      1 REG /lib64/tls/libpthread-0.60.so
      1 REG /u/zochd/cfengine-bin-2/sbin/cfservd
      1 REG /usr/kerberos/lib64/libcom_err.so.3.0
      1 REG /usr/kerberos/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
      1 REG /usr/kerberos/lib64/libk5crypto.so.3.0
      1 REG /usr/kerberos/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.1
      1 REG /usr/lib64/libz.so.1.1.4
   1210 REG /var/cfengine/cf_lastseen.db
      1 unix

Hm....1210 open filehandles on cf_lastseen.db?  Sounds like a bug...

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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.