Identify devices from lsof

We have certain Ubuntu (18.04) servers operating .NET Core apps on Kestrel. Recently the apps and OSes have been hanging, requiring entire VM restart.

What we found was the app had way too many file descriptors for network sockets. i.e. /proc/

Correspondingly, a query with lsof would reveal an ever-growing pool of "protocol:TCP" of type sock the dotnet process leaks.

COMMAND  PID     USER   FD      TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF   NODE NAME
dotnet  6905 www-data  675u     sock                0,9      0t0  96816 protocol: TCP
dotnet  6905 www-data  676u     sock                0,9      0t0  96863 protocol: TCP
dotnet  6905 www-data  677u     sock                0,9      0t0  96910 protocol: TCP
dotnet  6905 www-data  678u     sock                0,9      0t0  96959 protocol: TCP
dotnet  6905 www-data  679u     sock                0,9      0t0  97006 protocol: TCP
dotnet  6905 www-data  680u     sock                0,9      0t0  97053 protocol: TCP
dotnet  6905 www-data  681u     sock                0,9      0t0  97101 protocol: TCP

From another thread with similar reported problem, https://serverfault.com/questions/153983/sockets-found-by-lsof-but-not-by-netstat we understand that is due to some code (likely some library) in the .NET app that is opening sockets without binding IP address or port to it.

However, what we particularly like to know in this case is, what are DEVICE 0 and 9 in this context? I have seen other reports list 0,5 or 0,7 but nobody explains what those numbers represent which type of device.