I
CC'ed hep-gnats since I've received no response from
bug-gnats...
It
seems that gnatsd never closes the PR.lock file, an strace of the REPL command
shows this:
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/gnats.lock",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL, 0) =
5
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/index", O_RDONLY)
=
6
close(6)
=
0
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/locks/3515.lock",
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL, 0644) =
6
close(6)
= 0
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/test/3515", O_RDONLY) =
6
close(6)
= 0
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/test/3515", O_RDONLY) =
6
close(6)
= 0
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/test/3515", O_RDONLY) =
6
close(6)
= 0
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/test/3515",
O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) =
6
close(6)
= 0
unlink("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/test/3515.old") =
0
open("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/indI6fqXL",
O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) =
6
close(6)
=
0
unlink("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/locks/3515.lock")
= 0
unlink("/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/gnats.lock") =
0
If during a
single gnatsd session I modify a field for a bunch of PR's, on change number
252 I get this error:
640 Cannot create lock file
/tools/gnats/4.0/etc/gnats/db-vlsibcmx/gnats-adm/locks/1579.lock: Too many
open files
My simple
command file is:
CHDB someDB
someUser thePassword
REPL 1579
Priority
low
.
with the last 3
lines repeated 252 times.