[Evolution] Why does evo 2.6.3 have 2300 FIFO pipes open on startup? ( 2800 files open total )

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

Is this number of open files expected?  Why?

Thanks,
reid

rthompso jhereg:~$ ps -ef |grep evolution
rthompso 22439 21834  0 08:07 pts/3    00:00:00 grep evolution
rthompso jhereg:~$ lsof -c evolution |wc
      0       0       0
rthompso jhereg:~$ ps -ef |grep evolution
rthompso 22459  5447 14 08:07 ?        00:00:04 evolution-2.6
rthompso 22478     1  0 08:07 ?
00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-data-server-1.6
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_DataServer_InterfaceCheck
--oaf-ior-fd=735
rthompso 22481     1 17 08:07 ?
00:00:03 /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/evolution-exchange-storage
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Exchange_Component_Factory:2.6
--oaf-ior-fd=737
rthompso 22499     1  1 08:07 ?
00:00:00 /usr/lib/evolution/2.6/evolution-alarm-notify
--oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_Evolution_Calendar_AlarmNotify_Factory:2.6 --oaf-ior-fd=743
rthompso 22540 21834  0 08:08 pts/3    00:00:00 grep evolution
rthompso jhereg:~$ lsof -c evolution |wc
   2841   23275  218733
rthompso jhereg:~$ lsof -c evolution |grep FIFO |grep pipe|wc
   2256   18048  160176
rthompso jhereg:~$ lsof -c evolution |grep unix |grep socket|wc
     23     184    1679
rthompso jhereg:~$ lsof -c evolution |grep IPv4 |grep TCP|wc
      9      81    1134