Thanks Guillaume, this is exactly the information I needed!
> I think this is the expected behavior for Felix at least, though I've no > idea how other OSGi frameworks work internally. > This is controlled by > > https://github.com/apache/felix/blob/trunk/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/framework/cache/JarContent.java > and also > > https://github.com/apache/felix/blob/trunk/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/framework/util/WeakZipFileFactory.java > > The WeakZipFileFactory can be configured to only keep a number of zip > files > opened at the same time, so it's a tradeoff between performances and > resources. > It can be configured using the felix.cache.filelimit property > > https://github.com/apache/felix/blob/trunk/framework/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/framework/cache/BundleCache.java#L82 > The default value is 0, meaning all files will be kept opened. > > > 2014-10-03 9:10 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>: > >> While investigating a resource problem on our server I noticed that >> Karaf >> (using Felix) had an open file descriptor on every >> data/cache/bundle*/version* file (i.e. the cached bundle). Does anyone >> know if this is normal behaviour for Karaf, Felix, or indeed OSGi >> frameworks in general? >> >> >> >
