Re: port leak when starting a translator

[Samuel Thibault]

Richard Braun, le Thu 05 May 2011 15:31:14 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:54:30PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > It's the big leak I have on the buildds. 50k ports after like 10h
> > building stuff.
> 
> Assuming this leak only happens when starting a new translator, this
> implies building stuff starts a lot of them.

It could simply be symlinks, couldn't it? I don't see what translator
could be started. All that is possibly a bit non-standard is that we use
chroot a lot in a secondary ext2fs (which is the one that is leaking,
the / one is not)

> Identifying which ones
> may help narrowing the leak origin. Also, does portinfo print lots of
> receive only (or maybe receive/send-once) rights (I assume the leak
> leaves no send right in ext2fs) ?

It's only receive rights, no send rights.

> > > It seems to be triggered by starting a new translator only.
> > 
> > So you are actually observing it too?
> 
> No, but that's what the code seems to do.

The actual check for existing translator is further inside
fshelp_fetch_root, the box->active check.

Samuel