From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Becky Bruce Subject: file descriptor leak? or expected behavior? Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:58:39 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 11 23:59:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eahr1-0002Jf-0e for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:58:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751305AbVKKW6j (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:58:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751306AbVKKW6j (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:58:39 -0500 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:57774 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305AbVKKW6i (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:58:38 -0500 Received: from az33smr02.freescale.net (az33smr02.freescale.net [10.64.34.200]) by az33egw02.freescale.net (8.12.11/az33egw02) with ESMTP id jABN8G43028564 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:08:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (mvp-10-214-72-75.am.freescale.net [10.214.72.75]) by az33smr02.freescale.net (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jABN5jtn023701 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:05:45 -0600 (CST) To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Folks, My apologies if this is a known issue/question - I've searched the list and haven't found anything about this, but given the volume of traffic, it's easy to miss things..... I grabbed 0.99.9g this morning, and tried to clone Paul Mackerras' linux merge tree. The clone failed and reported errors in http-fetch with a bunch of messages of the form: error: Couldn't create temporary file .git/objects/04/48fa7de8a416a48cd1977f29858be54e67c078.temp for .git /objects/04/48fa7de8a416a48cd1977f29858be54e67c078: Error 24: Too many open files I did some experimenting, and it looks like this crops up somewhere between git versions 0.99.8f and 0.99.9a. My question is, is git expected to try to open huge numbers of files, or is this a fd leak? I cranked up my ulimit, and am still unable to successfully clone this tree, although it fails differently (tail end of output....): progress: 22 objects, 56146 bytes Also look at http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ Getting pack list error: The requested URL returned error: 404 Getting pack list Getting index for pack e0d76ffe354ef5665028a6cb4506ea902f72e1d0 Getting pack e0d76ffe354ef5665028a6cb4506ea902f72e1d0 which contains 5014bfa48ac169e0748e1e9651897788feb306dc progress: 1322 objects, 5736795 bytes cg-fetch: objects fetch failed cg-clone: fetch failed The command I ran, and the tree I tried to clone are: > cg-clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge.git linux-2.6.paul Cheers, -B