[omniORB] Too many open files

[Antonio Beamud Montero]

Hi all:
I've a CORBA client inside a daemon process in python.It's invoked in a
loop every few seconds. The code is something like this (in a simplified
way):

    while True:
        orb = CORBA.ORB_init(sys.argv, CORBA.ORB_ID)
        f = open('/tmp/server.ior')
        obj = orb.string_to_object(f.read())
        f.close()
       try:
            info = obj.get_gaps()
       finally:
            orb.shutdown(False)
            orb.destroy()
       time.sleep(5)

All of this works ok, but the number of sockets open by this process is
growing until "Too many open files" appears...

If the Corba server uses UNIX sockets, all works fine, the number of
pipes is constant, but, using TCP/IP sockets, the problem arises.

How can I tell the orb to release all the sockets?

P.D: I'm using omniORB 4.1.3/python-omniORB 3.3

Greetings