Force close sockets after use

[kaizensparc]

Hello,
I'm using the library in a long-running script where I frequently connect/disconnect to brokers. After a few hours/days, I cannot connect anymore due to "too many open files" error. In fact after checking the open sockets with lsof I end up with hundreds of open sockets when idle.

It seems the MQTT client class relies on __del__ method (and thus in the garbage collector) to close the sockets, which gives unpredictable results. Is there any way to force close the sockets when disconnecting? I was thinking maybe exporting the _reset_sockets method?

Thanks

[kevalRPansuriya]

I am experiencing the same issue I am performing a test where I disconnect from the broker every 30 seconds this left too many open sockets which is not getting closed in my case.

[MattBrittan]

I'm going to close this due to inactivity (the library has changed since this was raised). Please feel free to reopen, but if you do please provide a minimal example and details about your environment (OS etc).