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FID leak

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ocaml
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reproducing the hyperkit exit-and-restart loop and observe the FID pool exhausted notice. Trace connection and FID cleanup around the restart path; done means the loop no longer exhausts the pool or leaves FIDs unreleased.

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Description

When hyperkit exits and restarts in a loop I see lots of these:

2016-12-09 ... <Notice>: FID pool exhausted (will wait for a free one; deadlock possible)

Perhaps there's a failure to clean up a connection or a FID somewhere? I would have thought the FID pool was per connection but perhaps there's a problem there.

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