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FS#3259 - Pacman: too many open files!

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Sunday, 02 October 2005, 06:51 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 15 December 2005, 22:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi everyone,

Upon upgrading my system this morning (the GCC4 move), pacman suddenly starting spilling out errors and my system became unusable, it complained about too many open files. Now I can't do anything anymore, and the upgrade was far from complete.
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Closed by  Aurelien Foret (aurelien.foret)
Friday, 03 February 2006, 08:57 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in pacman 2.9.8 (file descriptor leak)
Comment by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Sunday, 02 October 2005, 15:05 GMT
I confirm this problem, it occurred when I was pulling in an entire system to "clone" a system I had previously had, which meant a VERY large number of packages.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 02 October 2005, 18:22 GMT
This is a kernel limit.

http://www.patoche.org/LTT/kernel/00000128.html
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 02 October 2005, 18:22 GMT
btw, these proc variables have moved to /proc/sys/fs
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Sunday, 02 October 2005, 19:01 GMT
Yeah but it's set to quite alot, so it must be pacman that opens files and doesn't close them afterwards.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 04 October 2005, 18:54 GMT
seems to me like pacman shouldn't have more than a few files open at any one time... this limit is normally set to thousands.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Friday, 02 December 2005, 01:09 GMT
Judd,

Didn't I see a patch for this on pacman-dev? Is this something can be backported to 2.9.8 in the meantime?

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