I think this problem is GPU related, so I’m reporting it here, but I don’t know for sure what the issue is. samuel@aiko ~> cat /proc/10550/cmdline /usr/bin/obs⏎ …

I was able to reproduce the issue in real time, and tried to figure out where the file descriptors were leaking: Here is an example of a leak: samuel@aiko /p/1/fd> ls -lah 42926 lr-x------ 1 samuel samuel 64 Jul 28 14:26 42926 -> anon_inode:sync_file I captured the strace output for that file des…

Okay, I was able to capture a backtrace: > sudo strace -f -p 18497 -e trace=dup -s 256 ... a lot ... [pid 18497] dup(37) = 6081 [pid 18497] dup(37) = 6084 [pid 18497] dup(37) = 6085 [pid 18497] dup(37) = 6085 [pid 1849…

Unfortunately, even mutter-performance and gnome-shell-performance did not fix the issue. For reference, here is the script (fish) I was using to watch file descriptors being leaked: for pid in (ls /proc/ | grep '^[0-9]') set fd_count (count /proc/$pid/fd/* ^/dev/null) echo (cat /proc/$pid/cmd…

I found a work around, but it’s not ideal. So I was able to reproduce this issue with obs and pipe wire for sharing my desktop. I changed to GNOME Mutter Screen Cast and I am no longer leaking file descriptors. So it might be an interaction between PipeWire, Mutter and libEGL_nvidia. For sure, ther…

We have similar issue reported internally 5352012 for tracking purpose. Shall keep updated on the progress.

`gnome-shell`, `obs` running out of file descriptors, 1000s of `anon_inode:sync_file`

Graphics / Linux Linux

samuel79 July 28, 2025, 2:10am 2

Okay, looks like it might be similar to Fd leak with explicit sync and kde plasma

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`gnome-shell`, `obs` running out of file descriptors, 1000s of `anon_inode:sync_file`

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