Package: avahi-daemon Version: 0.6.16-3etch1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line ***
If another process (like webalizer in my case) eats up all available file descriptors then avahi-daemon goes into a busy loop on its accept() system call and floods the syslog. this results in 100% CPU usage (shared equally between syslog and avahi-daemon). A better error handling possibly with a back-off delay is needed here. Here's a sample output from the syslog: Jan 17 08:01:10 localhost avahi-daemon[3336]: accept(): Too many open files Jan 17 08:01:41 localhost last message repeated 740616 times Jan 17 08:02:42 localhost last message repeated 1521753 times Jan 17 08:03:43 localhost last message repeated 1500812 times Jan 17 08:04:44 localhost last message repeated 1524410 times Jan 17 08:05:45 localhost last message repeated 1502775 times Jan 17 08:06:46 localhost last message repeated 1381572 times Jan 17 08:07:47 localhost last message repeated 1501711 times Jan 17 08:08:48 localhost last message repeated 1240818 times Jan 17 08:09:49 localhost last message repeated 1518004 times Jan 17 08:10:50 localhost last message repeated 1516795 times Jan 17 08:11:51 localhost last message repeated 1515754 times Jan 17 08:12:52 localhost last message repeated 1487226 times Jan 17 08:13:53 localhost last message repeated 1301577 times Jan 17 08:14:54 localhost last message repeated 1488510 times Jan 17 08:15:55 localhost last message repeated 1488794 times Jan 17 08:16:56 localhost last message repeated 1496280 times Jan 17 08:17:01 localhost last message repeated 139276 times -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (200, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libavahi-common3 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi common library ii libavahi-core4 0.6.16-3etch1 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libdaemon0 0.10-1 lightweight C library for daemons ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends: ii libnss-mdns 0.9-0.2 NSS module for Multicast DNS name -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
