helps you figure out why your unix process uses too many file descriptors
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fd-leak-finder
fd-leak-finder helps you figure out why your unix process is using up too many fds.
To use it, generate strace output with a command something like this:
strace -q -a1 -s0 -ff -e trace=desc -tttT -ostrace.file $EXECUTABLE
Then pipe the resulting “strace.file.$PID” into fd-leak-finder’s stdin.
CAVEATS
It turns out that strace’s representation of this stuff is much more complicated than I thought, and I don’t understand why some of fd-leak-finder’s computations turn out the way they do. You can see “xxx weird” sorts of messages in fd-leak-finder. Hopefully it will be useful to you anyway! If you figure out how to improve it please let me know.
I guess parsing strace’s human-oriented output is a bad way to do this. I’m not sure what a good way to do it is, on Linux. On Solaris or OSX I suppose a good way to do it would be to use dtrace.
LICENCE
You may use this package under the Simple Permissive Licence, version 1 or, at your option, any later version. See the file COPYING.SPL.txt for the terms of the Simple Permissive Licence, version 1.
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