[Mono-dev] Wapi handle leaks problems

[Brad Taylor]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:53 +0100, Hubert FONGARNAND wrote:
> 
> Le mercredi 20 février 2008 à 20:43 +0000, Dick Porter a écrit : 
> > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 09:51 +0100, Hubert FONGARNAND wrote:
> > > -> don't you thing that a 4096 limit for WAPI handles is too small for
> > > big production servers? (on windows the number of handles is often
> > > >6000)?
> > 
> > The shared memory part of io-layer is currently being rewritten to avoid
> > the hard-coded limit (amongst other issues.)  There is no timetable yet
> > for its completion.
> This is a great news...
> 
> But for now our servers crashes each night...
> It could be good to track why the number of Handles grows on ASP.NET
> when there's no activity....

You're not the only one seeing this.  Our Bridge application often
crashes at night during a period of no activity.  We're using a bundled
version of xsp.

Up until this point, we were unsure if it was something we were doing,
or a bug in mono.  #323666[1] could be related.

-Brad

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[1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=323666#c4