From: wa1ter@myrealbox.com
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:42:33 GMT
Subject: Re: http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511131625490.32662@x2.ybpnyarg>
In-Reply-To: <1131926492.14637.5.camel@k9.localnet>



On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, walt wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:21 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> [...]
> > However, one thing puzzles me.  I just tried to reproduce it by
> > doing this:
> >
> > 	$ rm -fr git-http
> >         $ ulimit -n 16
> >         $ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git-http
> >
> > and it did not fail on my Linux box...

> I've never seen it on Linux...

Aha!  I do indeed see it on linux with ulimit -n 64 but *only* when I
do the clone with cg-clone.  When I use 'git clone' it works just fine.

So, what does cogito do differently that accounts for more open files?