TurboFloat Server uses thousands of file handles

Hi,

We have a customer who is reporting that the TurboFloat server in their Linux environment consumes a huge number of file handles (10 - 50k!) and sent us the output of an lsof demonstrating as such. There are a few regular file handles open, but lots of timer and event handles.

….

license-s  23045  23056           root   56u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [timerfd]
license-s  23045  23056           root   57u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [eventfd]
license-s  23045  23056           root   58u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [eventpoll]
license-s  23045  23056           root   59u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [timerfd]
license-s  23045  23056           root   60u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [eventfd]
license-s  23045  23056           root   61u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [eventpoll]
license-s  23045  23056           root   62u  a_inode                0,9          0        7047 [timerfd]

…

They are on 4.3.1.0, running on a CentOS 7 server.

Would you expect the server to use this many file handles?  If not, is there a reason it might do this?

Thank you!