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Message: [QUOTE="Oz Levanon, post: 547807"] Hi. I'm running a tomcat server on Linux (2.4.20-8smp) with a constant load of users sending requests to it. I've noticed that the number of used file-descriptors on the machine increases with time (I use "lsof -a -d 0-10000000 | wc -l" to count the number of used file-descriptors). Once in a while, supposedly when the GC runs, the number goes down, but over long periods of time it steadily increases. I take this to mean that I have a leak somehwere. I wanted to ask if I have to explicitly close all open files (using FileInputStream.close and similar methods) in order to free file-descriptors, or is it taken care of automatically by the GC whenever it runs? TIA, Oz. [/QUOTE]