On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:

On 10/03/06 12:50 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

As I'm not a C programmer, I don't know what the relation is between a kqueue and an FD -- but could it be related?

kqueues use FDs, so they are related.

If that original dccifd process (PID 49681) from this morning is still running I'd run this against it to see if it's using a large number of FDs:

fstat -vp 49681

First one was run just after your email arrived. Second, just a few minutes ago (8 hour difference).

quark# fstat -vp 49681
USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
dcc      dccifd     49681 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
dcc      dccifd     49681   wd /usr     1389624 drwxrwxr-x     512  r
dcc      dccifd     49681 text /usr     1389631 -r-xr-xr-x  466050  r
dcc      dccifd     49681    0 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    1 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    2 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    3* local stream c29c7460
dcc      dccifd     49681    4* internet dgram udp c2603bf4
dcc      dccifd     49681    5 /usr     1389679 -rw-------    7564 rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    6* local dgram c29c79d8 <-> c2619dac
dcc      dccifd     49681    7* internet dgram udp c2603a8c
dcc      dccifd     49681    8* internet dgram udp c34cf5a0
dcc      dccifd     49681    9* internet dgram udp c305e000
dcc      dccifd     49681   10* internet dgram udp c2981e10
dcc      dccifd     49681   11* internet dgram udp c2981438
dcc      dccifd     49681   12 /usr     1389664 -rw-r--r--   44508 rw
dcc      dccifd     49681   13* internet dgram udp c2603b40
dcc      dccifd     49681   14* internet dgram udp c298121c
dcc      dccifd     49681   17 /usr     1389664 -rw-r--r--   44508 rw
quark# fstat -vp 49681
USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
dcc      dccifd     49681 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
dcc      dccifd     49681   wd /usr     1389624 drwxrwxr-x     512  r
dcc      dccifd     49681 text /usr     1389631 -r-xr-xr-x  466050  r
dcc      dccifd     49681    0 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    1 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    2 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    3* local stream c29c7460
dcc      dccifd     49681    4* internet dgram udp c2603bf4
dcc      dccifd     49681    5 /usr     1389679 -rw-------    7564 rw
dcc      dccifd     49681    6* local dgram c29c79d8 <-> c2619dac
dcc      dccifd     49681    7* internet dgram udp c2f3ba8c
dcc      dccifd     49681    8* internet dgram udp c2603d5c
dcc      dccifd     49681    9* internet dgram udp c305e000
dcc      dccifd     49681   10* internet dgram udp c2981438
dcc      dccifd     49681   11* internet dgram udp c2603ca8
dcc      dccifd     49681   12 /usr     1389664 -rw-r--r--   44508 rw
dcc      dccifd     49681   13* internet dgram udp c2603b40
dcc      dccifd     49681   14* internet dgram udp c298121c
dcc      dccifd     49681   17 /usr     1389664 -rw-r--r--   44508 rw
quark# fstat -vp 49680
USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT      INUM MODE         SZ|DV R/W
dcc      dccifd     49680 root /             2 drwxr-xr-x     512  r
dcc      dccifd     49680   wd /usr     1389624 drwxrwxr-x     512  r
dcc      dccifd     49680 text /usr     1389631 -r-xr-xr-x  466050  r
dcc      dccifd     49680    0 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49680    1 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49680    2 /dev         22 crw-rw-rw-    null rw
dcc      dccifd     49680    4* internet dgram udp c2981bf4
quark#

I of course have no idea what to make of this output.  Pointers?

-Dan

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