chrome spends all its time calling close Re: chrome spends all its time calling open

[Matthew Macy]

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 ---- On Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:23:18 -0700 Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote ---- 
 > 
 > While looking at other issues I tried running truss on chrome at startup and I discovered a certain rather dysfunctional behavior:
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 > 
 > lanecrash# grep "close(" chrome.log | wc
 >  1317903 7905445 68502169
 > planecrash# wc chrome.log            
 >  1466068 8798135 78854285 chrome.log
 > 
 > It repeatedly calls close on 1 up to ~128000. System calls aren't expensive per se, but if almost 95% of your system calls are close you're doing something quite wrong.
 > 
 > -M