Re: open files limit
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:15, Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com> wrote:
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> 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?
What version of Git? I remember fixing this already.... :-)
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Shawn.
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>