The program is a standard flask program, and it does some cleanup as part of the initialization. In the cleanup() procedure, using os.remove(“abc.txt”), I noticed that the file is removed, but not reclaimed by the OS. I use both “python website.py” and “gunicorn website:app” to run the application and both have the same problem, in Linux environment. In MacOS, I
Tag: lsof
Difference between lsof -c name and lsof | grep ^name?
I’m trying to figure out whether I have a leak in file descriptors using lsof. The -c option to lsof is defined as: Selects the listing of files for processes executing the command that begins with the characters of c. If that’s true then why do these two commands report different numbers? Answer The default lsof will output the the
How to exclude from `lsof` output the libraries?
I want to print in a log with the help of lsof the information about opened resources but I don’t want the customer to see what libraries are used. I browsed through the lsof man page but I cannot get a hold of how I can exclude only the libraries from the output. Is there an easy method to do