Re: [Savannah-hackers] I may have pushed savannah to it's limit...

[Loic Dachary]

Paul Visscher writes:
 > I had to make changes in /software/*/progname.html(around 200 files or
 > so). When I committed all the files, I got this error message
 > 
 >     sh: /var/log/sf_sync_www.log: Too many open files in system
 >     sh: /usr/local/bin/log_accum: Too many open files in system
 >     cvs server: warning: cannot open CVS/Checkin.prog: Too many open
 >                 files in system
 >     cvs server: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: Too many open files
 >                 in system 
 >     cvs [server aborted]: cannot open CVS/Repository: Too many open
 >                           files in system 
 > 
 > This seems like Linux is running out of file descriptors. And the commit
 > seems to not have worked correctly(when I do cvs commit in that
 > directory, it starts to try to commit all those changes again).
 > 
 > It's not too much work to go into each directory and do a commit, but we
 > may have similar problems in the future.

        I see where it comes from. I raised the limit from 4096 to
10240 and that will probably solve the problem temporarily although
it's not satisfying. I added a task to fix this permanently at
https://savannah.gnu.org/pm/task.php?func=detailtask&project_task_id=255&group_id=11&group_project_id=1.

        Thanks for the report,

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