From fdfbb77ed204077bd4560e173e4bf97487e55d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Surda <surda@economicsofbitcoin.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:05:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Close filehandles on connection reaping

- I thought this is done automatically through garbage collection, but I
think as the channel is still assigned in the asyncore map, it needs
to be done manually. Basically filehandle limit exceeded and it
crashed
---
 src/network/connectionpool.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/network/connectionpool.py b/src/network/connectionpool.py
index f489d9fc..2f937a15 100644
--- a/src/network/connectionpool.py
+++ b/src/network/connectionpool.py
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ class BMConnectionPool(object):
                     del self.inboundConnections[connection.destination.host]
                 except KeyError:
                     pass
+        connection.close()
 
     def getListeningIP(self):
         if BMConfigParser().safeGet("bitmessagesettings", "onionhostname").endswith(".onion"):