Sure I'll give that a shot. I haven't looked at the unit tests so it might take me a bit to write a test.
Darren > On Feb 10, 2014, at 1:49 PM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you think you can raise a JIRA and write a junit test so that I can have > a look ? > > > 2014-02-10 18:13 GMT+01:00 Darren Shepherd <[email protected]>: > >> I'm doing a lot of reverse forwarding and ran into a situation in which I >> thought I was leaking sockets. If you do a reverse forward and then just >> keep connecting and disconnecting to the port the number of open sockets >> just keeps going up. >> >> What I figured out is that it's not really going up it just takes awhile >> to close. If you connect to the port every 5 seconds it will level off at >> a couple hundred. The ssh server sends a channel eof but the socket >> doesn't get released until some other thread comes along that seems to >> clean up sessions. I don't fully understand the details of that. >> >> What I've done to work around this issue is just close the sockets on >> channel eof. I'm not really sure if that is a generally safe change, but >> it is working for my use case. >> >> I'm not sure what a proper fix would be or even if this is consider a bug, >> but the end result of the behavior is that reverse forwarding is not useful >> when you expect to have connections happening regularly. You will quickly >> run out of FDs. >> >> Darren
