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Comment 13 for bug 717345

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 717345] Re: Updates to SFTP server leak file handles in use_forking_server mode

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On 2/16/2011 4:18 AM, William Grant wrote:
> There are actually 5 handles per connection: the extra is a unix socket
> to the forking master.
>
> Locally I cannot reproduce the suspected initial leak. However, once the
> FD limit is reached it starts leaking huge numbers of master sockets and
> a few child fifos. So an lsof afterwards would probably have had limited
> utility.
>

So is this the FD limit in the Conch process? Causing children to be
spawned but not connected to, and then just go dormant. Do we then run
out of system handles, causing the Conch process to continue this cycle?

John
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