bug#22814: 25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X

[Michael Albinus]

Version: 25.1

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:34:50 +0100
>> Cc: 22814@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> You are using "global-auto-revert-mode: t". kqueue does not support a
>> directory monitor, therefore it starts a new file notification monitor
>> for every single file, indeed.
>> 
>> I believe it is questionable to run auto-revert-mode for so many files,
>> but that's your choice. In order to suppress kqueue running for
>> auto-revert-mode, you shall set auto-revert-use-notify to nil.
>> 
>> Maybe there are means in OS X to increase the number of file descriptors
>> for Emacs, don't know. I don't use OS X.
>> 
>> I will add a note to the Emacs manual.
>
> I suggest adding this to etc/PROBLEMS as well.

Done. Closing the bug.

Best regards, Michael.