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From
PWPete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2011, 15:15 UTC
Message-ID
<20110812151548.GA14385@padd.com>
Somebody at $work found this problem:
    $ git ls-files -s | wc
    error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-1627e77da82bbb36118762649c8aa88c05664b1e.pack cannot be accessed
    [..lots more similar errors..]

Turns out his shell's open file descriptor limit was 500. And there are 1600 pack files in the repo.

Increasing the descriptor limit to 1024 fixed it. I could probably get him to repack, which may also fix it.

Does it seem feasible to look for EMFILE errors and close some packs? Or at least spit out a more intuitive error?

		-- Pete
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  4. test showing EMFILE error with too many packsPete Wyckoff, Aug 13, 2011

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