lib-bsd socket close issues

[Sebastian Huber]

On 05/04/2019 12:41, Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've not been able to reproduce either in a simple test case yet, 
> which would lead to the obvious conclusion that there is some fault in 
> my application. However, from my diagnostics i can see that a) all 
> opened socket FD's are being passed to close() and b) that close() is 
> not returning an error. The particular case is when my application 
> tries to connect(), which fails as the tcp port is not open.
>
> The application is a reasonably complex multi task project that will 
> have lots of threads using sockets at the same time, could that be 
> relevant ?
>
> Interestingly i've also had problems with the httpd (mongoose) server 
> "leaking" if web pages are opened to quickly as well, i never really 
> got to the bottom of it, i just ended up at 512 sockets and hope 
> people dont view pages to quickly.

You can view the status of the sockets with the "netstat -la" command. 
Maybe it helps to port also the SOCKSTAT(1) command:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sockstat&sektion=1&manpath=freebsd-release-ports

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