Fibers 1.0.0 has a bug in run-fibers in which peer schedulers aren't destroyed - so if you had 4 cores, 1 would be destroyed when run-fibers returned, but the other 3 would stay around. Each scheduler uses 3 file descriptors, so for machines with many cores, this resource leak adds up quickly - quickly enough that the test suite can even fail because of it. See https://github.com/wingo/fibers/issues/36. This fixes that. It should be safe to destroy the peer schedulers at the given point because the threads that could be running them are all either dead or the current thread. As of May 21, 2020, this bug still existed in the 1.0.0 (latest) release and in git master. --- a/fibers.scm 2020-05-21 18:38:06.890690154 -0500 +++ b/fibers.scm 2020-05-21 18:38:56.395686693 -0500 @@ -137,5 +137,6 @@ (%run-fibers scheduler hz finished? affinity)) (lambda () (stop-auxiliary-threads scheduler))))) + (for-each destroy-scheduler (scheduler-remote-peers scheduler)) (destroy-scheduler scheduler) (apply values (atomic-box-ref ret))))))