Too many open files on mapserv 4.10.1

[Rodrigo Del C. Andrade]

    I am way too swamped right now to fill a bug report, but check in 
the INCLUDES on your mapfile.
    I have this problem on 4.10.1 and the culprit was the includes I had 
on my main mapfile being left open.

    Cheers,
   
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Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 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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