Too many open files on mapserv 4.10.1

[Daniel Morissette]

Sorry for the late reply. That sounds like a leak of file handles, 
perhaps you could use 'lsof' to find out which files are left open 
(you'd have to do that before the script ends execution), and then file 
a bug with all the details.

Daniel


Benedito A. Cruz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I am upgrading my mapserv applications to a new server. It starts working
> with no problems, but after a while the mapserv application stops working.
> After a lot of tests i discovered that the following Perl program works OK
> using mapserv 4.2.0 in the old server , but returns with "Too many open
> files" using mapserv 4.10.1 in the new server (it opens 23 files and die):
> 
> 
> #-------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> $|=1;
> 
> use mapscript;
> 
> foreach (0..50)
> { print "$_ ";
>   my $map = new
> mapscript::mapObj('/home/mapcria/bin/data/mapfiles/default.map') or die
> "Unable to open mapfile $!";
>   undef $map;
> }
> #-------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> $./tooManyOpenFilesBug 
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Unable to open
> mapfile Too many open files at /home/xxx/tooManyOpenFilesBug 
> 
> #-------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Does anybody have a hint on the problem? I need it opening a lot of files,
> since I am using mapserv as a component of a web service and not as a CGI.
> 
> The versions I am using in the new server are:
> 
> Fedora Core 6 x86_64
> Kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)
> PERL 5.8.8
> GDAL 1.4.0
> GD 2.0.33
> GEOS 2.2.3
> GEOTIFF 1.2.3
> PROJ 4.5.0
> 
> 
> []s
> 
> 
> Benê
> 
> 


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