Re: Menu items won't open and close after a while

[Mike Witt <mikewitt 2009 gmail com>]

On 01/01/2010 11:41:49 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 01/02/2010 01:56:40 AM, Mike Witt wrote:
> > > [cut]
> > > I think you hit the spot! The pop3 handling code could leak the  
> > > file descriptors when the network connection was broken while  
> > > downloading the message. I attach the patch that fixes the problem  
> > > for me. I have commited it also to git repository.
> > >
> > > Pawel
> >
> > Paweł,
> >
> > Thank you for doing this. I wonder if the fix will make it into the
> > Fedora-11 build now that Fedora-12 is already out. I have never tried
> > to build Balsa myself, but I suppose there's no reason why I couldn't
> > try.
>
> Mike,
>
> I could push the balsa update for fedora-11 - and for fedora-12 as  
> well! - if the bug fix worked. It is a kind of circular problem :).  
> Hm, as a matter of fact, several bug fixes came in since 2.4.1, they  
> might warrant a balsa update anyway.
>
> > One thing I'm a little confused about. I don't see why these files  
> > not
> > getting closed would stop the menu items from opening and closing. Is
> > it really the same bug?
>
> I am not 100% sure. However, the lsof report indicates that balsa  
> leaks the descriptors. Hell may break loose when a process is out of  
> descriptors, this is a rarely tested corner case. If you want to be  
> sure, please run lsof when the problem with folder opening occurs  
> again. I suspect you will get then a very large number of open  
> descriptors.
>
> Pawel
> PS. lsof -p PID is a more reliable way to get the results for a  
> single process only. Using grep in this case will give you false hits  
> whenever you have eg a directory open in bash that includes balsa in  
> its name. I get also false hits whenever pulseaudio is active since  
> it uses libalsa-util.so (OK, this is just one file).

I restarted balsa and then waited until the menus quit working. It took
several hours and I sent and received mail a number of times. When the
menus quit working I had 180 open files (3 of which were deleted pop
connections).

For whatever that's worth.