Re: Error message: unable to open object pack directory: .git/objects/pack: Too many open files

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 13, 2013, 02:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AHjAgSFzZ2R2Nup=GcuQJdaedbGXhRpcCT6HuaaLUtaQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJc7Lbqaas0Czdvcfn8+iceoyxaVSHOaV9jCJsy4mWH+AbV41Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Лежанкин Иван <abyss.7@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I use linux.
>
> I can't publish repo - it's proprietary, it weights ~300M unpacked,
> and it uses references ~3Gb.
> Error message doesn't contain "remote:" prefix.
> The majority of opened files have name like:
> objects/pack/pack-<hash>.[ pack | idx ]
> They all are from referenced repo.

There's a fix related to too many open packs, 88d0db5 (sha1_file: introduce close_one_pack() to close packs on fd pressure - 2013-08-01) but it's only available in v1.5.0-rc0 or rc1. Could you try that version?

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>
> I have disabled gc in the referenced repo - to prevent all local repos
> from breaking. May this be the cause of problem?
>
> On 12 November 2013 18:19, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Лежанкин Иван <abyss.7@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I get this error message every time I want to do a `git push`.
>>> git version: 1.8.4.2
>>>
>>> Is it a known issue? Do you need additional info to investigate it?
>>
>> What OS do you use? If the repository can be published, please do.
>> Compress the whole .git directory, don't push or anything. Does the
>> error message begin with "remote: "? If not you could try strace and
>> at least identify what files are opened.
>> --
>> Duy

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Duy