Questions tagged [handle-leak]
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Too many invalid handles in System process
I have experienced increase of invalid handles in System process (Windows Server 2008R2 x64). The amount is approximately 1,000,000 per week.
According to Process Explorer the handle type is file. From the task manager it seems the memory is not…
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Linux file-handle (pipe) leak in WildFly 12+
I am trying to identify if behaviour that I am observing is correct or if WildFly is leaking file handle descriptors.
During our standard performance testing after upgrading from WildFly 11 to 14 we ran into an issue regarding too many open files.…
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Gareth Wilson
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What is causing ntoskrnl aka the System process to continue accumulating handles
I have a server which is accumulating handles on the System process aka c:\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe. The handles go to 18,000 in one day and keep going forever up at that rate. The server is running Postgresql 9.0.3, asp.net web services which…
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Adam Bruss
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Printing from C# using too many handles
I have a very simple application that is printing TIFF files to a variety of networked printers. The printers are all installed on 3 different print servers, while the application runs on a separate machine. (Lets call them Print1,2,3, and…
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What could be causing SVCHost to leak handles?
I have a problem that has been causing me all sorts of grief recently. SVCHost appears to be leaking resources all over the shop.
This is the SVCHost run with the arguments "-k netsvcs".
At the moment it is sitting at around 5,700 Handles being…
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nginx passenger - restart app periodically or when it reaches too high memory
I have a memory leak on one of my apps being served with nginx + passenger and a min/max_instances 2 setting. Memory keeps growing up as time passes by, and this can be a problem on a machine with limited memory (eg Amazon Web Services) that can end…
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Cyril Duchon-Doris
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Troubleshooting PID Leaking
One of our servers has been leaking PID like crazy. I wrote a simple scheduled script, and it seems that every day the highest PID increases by approx. 300'000. E.g., if on Aug.24 00:00 the highest PID is 50'796, on Aug.25 00:00 the highest PID is…
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netstat shows inequal amount of mutual connection between two hosts
I'm trying to investigate why the amounts of connections between two physical hosts 10.240.48.9 и 10.241.169.7 (CentOS 6) don't match each other (diagnosed from the each one respectively):
On 10.241.169.7:
$ sudo netstat -lnpa | grep tcp | grep…
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Vitaly Isaev
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Identifying cause of Software opening hundreds of thousands of handles
I have a user running the latest public revision of IBM Notes (853FP4 per correction below) on a Windows 7 Pro OA installation. Under his profile and only his, when the software is run, the software opens hundreds of thousands of handles, regarding…
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