Marc G. Fournier wrote: > For those that remmeber the other day, I had that swzone issue, where I ran > out > of swap space? I just about hit it again today, swap was up to 99% used ... > I > was able to get a ps listing in, and there were a whack of find processes > running ... > > Now, I think I know which VPS they were running in, so that isn't a problem > ... > and I suspect that the find was just part of a longer pipe ... I'm just > curious > if those pipes would happen to use up any of those sockets that are > 'evaporating', or is this totally unrelated to sockets?
In FreeBSD, pipe() is implemented with the socketpair(2) system call. Every pipe uses two sockets (one for each endpoint). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"