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Comment 1 for bug 1495871

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Alexandros Frantzis (afrantzis) wrote : Re: unity8 leaks file descriptors

For completeness, here are Jean-Baptiste's findings:

"I reproduce the issue by following the "fd leak" lead with the following test case:

1. Open 2 apps
2. Switch from the app scope to app1
3. Switch from app1 to the app scope
4. Switch from the app scope to app2
5 lock the screen (optional but it leaks even more fd)

At the same time monitor the number of file descriptors used by unity8:
$ watch -n1 "ls /proc/$(pidof unity8)/fdinfo/| wc -l "

After a while unity8 runs out of fd and the system hangs. Eventually unity8 will restart a moment later."