[Haskell-cafe] Re: sendfile leaking descriptors on Linux?

[Bardur Arantsson]

Thomas DuBuisson wrote:
> Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>       then do errno <- getErrno
>>>               if errno == eAGAIN
>>>                 then do
>>>                    threadDelay 100
>>>                    sendfile out_fd in_fd poff bytes
>>>                 else throwErrno "Network.Socket.SendFile.Linux"
>>>      else return (fromIntegral sbytes)
>> That is, I removed the threadWaitWrite in favor of just adding a
>> "threadDelay 100" when eAGAIN is encountered.
>>
>> With this code, I cannot provoke the leak.
>>
>> Unfortunately this isn't really a solution -- the CPU is pegged at
>> ~50% when I do this and it's not exactly elegant to have a hardcoded
>> 100 ms delay in there. :)
> 
> I don't think it matters wrt the desired final solution, but this is
> NOT a 100 ms delay.  It is a 0.1 ms delay, which is less than a GHC
> time slice and as such is basically a tight loop.  If you use a
> reasonable value for the delay you will probably see the CPU being
> almost completely idle.
> 

Excellent, thanks. I was probably too tired or annoyed when I wrote that 
code. I sorta-kinda-knew I must have been doing *something* wrong :).

I'll retry with a more reasonable delay tomorrow.

Cheers,