From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:41:30 GMT
Subject: Re: cvsimport: rewritten in Perl
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507051936350.3570@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050705230226.0F9F4353A69@atlas.denx.de>



On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> I tested this on the U-Boot CVS repository (available at
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/u-boot-cvsroot.tar.bz2).
>
> Committing initial tree 2183da96d548c02bd4f99b05e673395f81212878
> Cannot create object: Too many open files

If you make it print out its <pid> and then pause, you can use 

	ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd/

to get an idea of what the files may be. Looks like the new perl version 
is leaking file descriptors..

Matthias?

		Linus