Too many open files

[David Evans]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 07:41, David Evans wrote:
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>> I upped the max number of open files using ulimit from
>> 256 to 10000 and ran my massive build again.
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>> While the build was running I monitored the files opened
>> by tclsh8.5 using
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>> sudo lsof | grep -i tcl | grep receipts | wc -l
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>> There were 272 instances of
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>> /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/file_map.db
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>> open.  I think we have a file open leak.
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> I have seen the "too many open files" problem myself when having MacPorts install a lot of ports at once. Thanks for finding out which file is the problem. Could you please file an issue in the issue tracker with your findings?
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Now filed as ticket #22959