RE: cfservd memory/file handle leak?

[Martin, Jason H]

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.