Hi,

My team started using RTC 1.0.1.1 recently to do source code control,
defect tracking, and builds. So far the integration is beautiful.
Thanks to the Jazz team for a great product.

Unfortunately, we have a build engine running on a Ubuntu 8.04 box
that gets the dreaded "Too many open files" errors once in
a while, forcing us to regularly restart jbe. The problem always
occurs during file fetching at the beginning of the build. Playing
around with the lsof utility showed that jbe appears to be leaking
handles for each build, somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 to 40
each time.

I read the advice here
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/JazzDevPitfalls and checked the
linked defects 28447 and 19943, but neither of them seem to describe
the leak I'm seeing. Bumping the handle limit is ok if the process
needs a large number of handles for a short period of time. But it
does not seem suitable if handles are being leaked.

Any advice you can give me? Upgrade my RTC version? Run cron to
restart jbe every night ?

thanks,
Charlie

What version of java are you running?

Here's a little more info. I ruled out anything leaking in my build script by reproducing the problem against a simple build script with one target that only does an echo. Given that, I think there's an issue here that needs a defect. I'll post lsof output there in case it can help.