Process encountering "too many files open" error after running for for many days

[hartfordfive]

Seems like the current functions processing file handles within logconsumer.go are not properly closing file handles. As a result, after a period of a few days, you can the application logs entries containing the error too many files open. This can be verified by running lost -p [PID] which in some cases, many thousand files were noticed to be open.

Need to verify and update the code so that file handles are properly managed and closed to prevent dangling open file handles.