From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: Leaving "iostat X" running for a long time finally ends with an error message about lack of file descriptors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sysstat-4.0.7-4.EL3.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "iostat 1" 2. Go for lunch and come back Actual Results: Iostat has died with a "Too many open files" message Expected Results: Iostat should keep on writing a message each second about I/O statistics. Additional info: Doing an "lsof -p NNN" on the running iostat reveals it opens /proc/stat for each loop, but never closes it. Limiting the number of file descriptors allowed (ulimit -n X/limit descriptors X) is a faster way to trigger the problem.
Hmm, just found this was already reported. I must have made some mistake when I searched for it before reporting. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131878 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.