Among my maint process run each night one deletes old tmp files and finds them using 'find'.
When I ran it yesterday, I was using process exporer to try to monitor it but Proxexp couldn't dispay the lower panel when selected for displaying handles....then I config'ed it to display # of handles in the upper panel.
I saw it have over 40 thousand handles open before I gave up trying to monitor it.
At first, on a rerun, I noted it had several handles to processes that no
longer existed. Possibly having some function similar to the old zombie
processes on *nix. This list slowly seemed to grow over time...then it jumped
to around 800+...that's when I noticed a bunch of handles to all of the registry
keys under the classes.
Right now, I am not able to track it, as the number of handles has jumped to 91,138. If I wasn't on an NT based OS (XP), the process would have likely terminated at this point. I guess #of handles isn't limited to 64K/process anymore either! :-)
Just a guess, but maybe find is doing a breadth first search on the registry-fs in proc? The zombie-process handles may have been a red-herring.
I think this has to do with the idea of creating real fs entries for /proc and /cygwin. That might not be such a good idea since one can always give /proc on the cmdline to find to start in and it will search it then. Yeikes!....
-linda
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