ERROR EMFILE 127.0.0.1:8100 - Local (undefined:undefined) - unclosed sockets?

[simageye]

Version 0.5.1
After few hours no stats-data are going to be send from the f5 anymore.

tail -100f /var/log/restnoded/restnoded.log

-->
info: Unable to retrieve device-info, Error: undefined
info: [BigStatsExporter - ERROR] - getPoolMemberStats(): Error: connect EMFILE 127.0.0.1:8100 - Local (undefined:undefined)
...
... buildMediumStatsObject()...
... getPoolMemberStats() ...
... buildMediumStatsObject() ...
... getVipStats() ...
... buildMediumStatsObject() ...
... pullStats() ...
... getPoolMemberStats()...
... buildMediumStatsObject()...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

lsof -i -n -P | grep restnoded

5-rest-n 25275 restnoded 4052u IPv4 762514718 0t0 UDP :52974
... many many many with different UDP:PORTS
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ps aux | grep 25275

root 6339 0.0 0.0 103344 832 pts/0 S+ 14:55 0:00 grep 25275
198 25275 2.9 0.6 1225876 52804 ? Sl 03:13 20:26 /usr/bin/f5-rest-node
/usr/share/rest/node/src/restnode.js -p 8105 --logLevel finest -i
/var/log/restnoded/restnoded.log -s none
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Do you think it is a code bug that sockets are not going to be closed anymore?

At a closer look it is the statsd module which is used in bigstats-exporter.js

[simageye]

$ bigstart restart restnoded
fix it temporarily but it is NOT a proper solution.