[Live-devel] Server stops accepting new connections.

[Ulrich Teichert]

Hi,


Ulrich Teichert
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USt.-IdNr: DE144752608, Steuer-Nr: 39487/30502> > On Sep 18, 2019, at 7:30 AM, Jeff Shanab <jshanab at jfs-tech.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been using Live555 for many years so I am fairly familiar with the
> code. Most of my time has been with the client side but I am currently having
> some trouble with a Server implementation and was hoping someone might
> have some insight.
> >
> > The issue is after 3 to 10 days of constant running serving multiple streams
> to multiple clients, the server will no accept new connections.
> >     This seems only to be happening on Linux.
>
> This sounds to me like a problem with your Linux kernel running out of open
> sockets.

As an educated guess I would say that's a resource leak, so I second Ross' opinion. Try out
cppcheck (fast) or valgrind (that will take longer a bit longer) to find out where the leak is.

HTH,
Uli