Package: linux-2.6
Severity: serious
We will hit a build failure soon as the total number of patch
applications and removals approaches 1024.
Ben.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Bastian Blank <waldi@mirbsd.org>
Subject: linux-2.6: too many open files
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:13:24 +0000 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm trying to build the sid kernel plus smarenka’s patches which you
reverted and ran into “too many open files”:
patches.py has
try:
fp = file(os.path.join(home, 'series', i))
ret.append(PatchSeries(i, home, fp))
except IOError:
pass
In IPython, I get:
In [41]: fp
Out[41]: <open file '/home/tg/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/patches/series/24+m68k.1', mode 'r' at 0x8e005a0>
In [42]: PatchSeries(i, home, fp)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
IOError Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/tg/linux-2.6-2.6.32/<ipython console> in <module>()
/home/tg/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/lib/python/debian_linux/patches.pyc in __init__(self, name, root, fp)
IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/tg/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/patches/bugfix/m68k/fp/0030-Update-for-m68k-Add-support-for-EARLY_PRINTK-on-MVM.patch'
I found out that ulimit -n defaulting to 1024 is too small to handle
this because that code insists on keeping all file pointers open.
Just so you know…
bye,
//mirabilos
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