[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#507512: Leaking FDs

[Nick Phillips]

The output I sent is there while waiting for next run; any daemon that  
has been started by puppet will, unless it explicitly closes  
extraneous FDs itself when it forks, keep all those FDs open forever.

This is bad because it wastes system resources, clutters up the output  
of lsof, makes it hard to tell what is actually going on on your  
system etc.

It's bad essentially for the same reasons a memory leak is bad, but  
also gets in the way of seeing what connections your system is  
actually using.


Cheers,


Nick

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