Re: compile dies with Memory Error, runs out of file descriptors

[renehl@post1.tele.dk (Rene Hojbjerg Larsen)]

David Welton wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 12:26:45AM +0000, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to compile wmaker (from Marcelo's debianized sources) on an
>> up to date potato system.  It dies in the configure phase with:
> 
> ....
> 
>> Running an strace shows that the system is running out of file
>> descriptors:
> 
> ....
> 
>> 21207 pipe([592, 593])                  = 0
>>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 21207 msgsnd(1281, {1, "\10\0\0\0\252T\0\0\27\0\0\0\377\377"...}, 16, 0) = 0
>> 21207 msgrcv(1280, {1, "\6\0\0\0\252T\0\0\1\0\0\0\3\3\0\0"...}, 2048, 0, 0) = 100
> 
> ....
> 
>> Any clues?
> 
> 2.2.xx system?  Have a look at "kernel traffic" for this week, it
> talks about some troubles with SySV IPC and similiar things:

Yes, it's a 2.2.6 kernel.  I should have mentioned that.

> http://www.kt.opensrc.org/kt19990422_15.html
> 
> Might not help, but it is interesting stuff:-)

I'm don't think that this is the same problem.  They talk about systems
under heavy load with a lot of swap space in use.  I'm on a 128MB box that
hardly uses any swap.

Ahh, I think I just located the problem: It's caused by the new fakeroot
package (0.0-17.4).  If I run "debian/rules binary" as root instead of via
fakeroot, the problem goes away.  I'll go file a bug report.

> Ciao,

Thanks anyway.
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