[mythtv-users] mythbackend leaking file descriptors/sockets?

[Joel]

I just discovered that mythbackend (21-fixes) seems to be leaking file 
descriptors for me.  This probably only started happening recently as 
the symptoms manifest within a couple days of starting it, and I've 
never seen them before.  The symptom is basically that it seems very 
unresponsive, via mythweb or the frontend.  In mythweb, the shows for 
today all have no thumbnail images, just black rectangles.  I straced 
the backend and found that it was out of file descriptors.  The file 
descriptors seem to all be taken up by socket connections.

It's possible that the overused file descriptors are a symptom of 
something else being broken.  I'll continue to investigate.  I just 
wondered if anyone had seen this before and could point me in the right 
direction.

For now I'll monitor the file descriptor usage over time and turn on 
socket debugging on the backend to see what I come up with.

Thanks,
Joel