[zeromq-dev] file descriptors?

[Sean Ochoa]

I just found the issue.  I wasn't closing the context properly.  No more file descriptors being left around, now.  Thanks for your help!  - Sean 

Sean Ochoa <sean.m.ochoa at gmail.com> wrote:

>I run the attached script, and then I run a bash command:  "ls -al"
>
>which gives me the following:
>
>/home/bitcycle/testing/q
>total 12K
>srwxr-xr-x 1 bitcycle bitcycle    0 2011-09-22 07:44
>publisher-6497A874E52911E099520022FA02089C-520014=
>srwxr-xr-x 1 bitcycle bitcycle    0 2011-09-22 07:44
>publisher-6497A874E52911E099520022FA02089C-520014-sync=
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>
>Though I haven't dealt with file descriptors very much in the past, it seems
>that they are residual file descriptors from the processes that I spawn.  I
>can confirm that no zombie processes stick around via "ps aux" and I can
>confirm that the processes are not alive when the script exits.
>
>Maybe take a look at my code.  Its probably something basic that I'm missing
>with zeromq.  I'm still pretty new to it.
>
>-- Sean
>
>On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Sean Ochoa wrote:
>>
>> > Hey all.  I'm wondering if someone could help me out with a pub/sub
>> issue.  I run my script with the pub and sub in different child processes
>> with the Python zmq bindings.  When the processes end the sockets are
>> closed,  but it leaves the file descriptors around.  I've searched online
>> for a bit, but haven't found a way to get it stop leaving them around.  Any
>> ideas?  - Sean _______________________________________________
>>
>> This shouldn't be possible. When the process exits, the OS is responsible
>> for freeing file descriptors.
>>
>> What do you mean by "it leaves the file descriptors around"? How are you
>> detecting or measuring this?
>>
>> cr
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