On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Raab, Andreas wrote:
> > > Also, if
> > > there's a chance of finding out, can you check how many
> > open sockets there
> > > are?!
> >
> > Aha! That reminds me! One symptom is that I'll see the odd
> > HttpAdaptor.
>
> What's that? Does it the sockets open?!
Sure I am not! At some point surely it does! Why like Yoda we speak? :)
> If so, don't be surprised if your VM
> hangs after a while.
I'm not ;) Of course, the funny thing is this happens inconsistently,
i.e., AFAIK, only on Windows of the NTish variety (i.e., it *didn't*
happen on Win 95, same image same vm otherwise same machine). So it's
unclear to me whether the HttAdaptor inspector is a *cause* or a symptom,
or a symptom of a differnt problem that's calling this problem.
> Sockets are supposed to be *closed* after you're done
> with it.
Indeed.
But would a single socket eventually cause the image to hang? Or two? That
seems a touch extreme!
Plus, I might have thought that a socket in "closed from other end but not
on this end" would eventually get closed, even if there's a reference to
it. But perhaps that's naive.
Also, some of these "sockets" may have "survived" a snapshot/quit/restart
cycle. It which case I'd be *damned* surprised if they were *really*
holding an external socket.
Clearly, more investigation is needed.
Cheers,
Bijan.
