[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#466914: php5-mapscript: Leaves file handles open

[Harri Kiiskinen]

Package: php5-mapscript
Version: 5.0.0-3
Severity: normal

I'm running a map application, that serves data from GRASS vector maps
with PHP5 and Mapserver. Each map 
produced leaves five (5) more file handles open:
one to:
/grass/location/mapset/vector/vectormap/coor
one to:
/grass/location/mapset/vector/vectormap/hist
and three to:
/usr/lib/grass/etc/ellipse.table

These handles are not reused while serving the next map based on these
files, but are left to accumulate. 
After a while the system starts to emit "Too many open files".
Restarting Apache frees the handles, so a 
regular restart is a remedy, but the behaviour is in any case not
correct.

This might just as well be a bug in the OGR library, part of libgdal,
instead of mapscript, but how am I to know?

Best Wishes,

Harri K.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php5-mapscript depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19             Debian configuration
management sy
ii  libapache2-mod-php5 [ 5.2.5-2            server-side, HTML-embedded
scripti
ii  libc6                 2.7-6              GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libcurl3-gnutls       7.17.1-1+b1        Multi-protocol file
transfer libra
ii  libfreetype6          2.3.5-1+b1         FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii  libgcc1               1:4.3-20080116-1   GCC support library
ii  libgd2-xpm            2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-1  GD Graphics Library version
2
ii  libgdal1-1.4.0        1.4.4-1            Geospatial Data Abstraction
Librar
ii  libgeos-c1            2.2.3-4            Geometry engine for
Geographic Inf
ii  libjpeg62             6b-14              The Independent JPEG
Group's JPEG 
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime
libraries
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.15~beta5-3     PNG library - runtime
ii  libpq5                8.3~rc2-1+b1       PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libstdc++6            4.3-20080116-1     The GNU Standard C++
Library v3
ii  libx11-6              2:1.0.3-7          X11 client-side library
ii  libxpm4               1:3.5.7-1          X11 pixmap library
ii  php5-cli [phpapi-2006 5.2.5-2            command-line interpreter
for the p
ii  proj                  4.6.0-1            Cartographic projection
filter and
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11  compression library -
runtime

php5-mapscript recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* php5/extension_mapscript_apache: true
  php5-mapscript/remove_extension: true
* php5/extension_mapscript_apache2: true
  php5-mapscript/add_extension: true