On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 02:49:05PM +1000, Andrew Whatson wrote: > Hi Nate, > > Thanks for reporting this! I'm able to reproduce on my systems, and > have identified the culprit: [250k calls to close()] Well spotted. Here [1] is a good discussion on the problem. Spoiler alert: there is no nice, simple and portable way around it. There may be complex, platform-dependent solutions (like, for example, under Linux go look in /proc//fd; BSD has other tricks). Of course, that doesn't mean that one should give up trying :) Cheers [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56650579/why-should-i-close-all-file-descriptors-after-calling-fork-and-prior-to-callin -- t