Too many open files

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> For some reason lsof takes forever on this system...um, and pegs the 
> load average to 20.  Perhaps I won't run that any more.  Any other 
> ideas?

> In the meanwhile, I wrote a little loop to check the number of open 
> files every minute...it looks like innd is using an additional ~117 
> sockets per hour, but not in any strict pattern (anywhere from zero to 
> four in any given minute).

Are there a ton of abandoned sockets in pathrun?  If not, and if nothing
is showing in netstat, I have no idea.  There's nothing in the news logs
that indicates what might be happening?  innd does use sockets for feeds
to programs, so if a program is constantly respawning, that could possibly
cause something like this, but that would definitely be showing up in the
logs.

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