Dear Internet, I would really like to know why my MacBook Pro running El Capitan leaks fds so badly...
Dear Internet,
I would really like to know why my MacBook Pro running El Capitan leaks fds so badly. The worst offenders are Mail, Safari, and Calendar. I had almost 23K fds reported by `lsof` -- just the ones owned by my user -- until I quit those three apps, and I dropped down to under 13K.
Most of them, from Calendar (well, CalendarAgent) and Mail -- several thousand -- are Unix domain sockets. Most of the Safari ones are weird-looking cache filenames, like "/E99288583F728C94325C775C3437E13FCD52C315".
I would really like to know why my MacBook Pro running El Capitan leaks fds so badly. The worst offenders are Mail, Safari, and Calendar. I had almost 23K fds reported by `lsof` -- just the ones owned by my user -- until I quit those three apps, and I dropped down to under 13K.
Most of them, from Calendar (well, CalendarAgent) and Mail -- several thousand -- are Unix domain sockets. Most of the Safari ones are weird-looking cache filenames, like "/E99288583F728C94325C775C3437E13FCD52C315".
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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