I think ulimit -n gives the fd limit, which is quite small.

Cristi

On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Stefan Bucur wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I was trying to run KLEE on the "ls" utility, and in a certain point
> KLEE crashed with an output like:
>
> KLEE: WARNING: unable to write output test case, losing it
> KLEE: WARNING: error opening: test3-000075.time
> 0   klee 0x08961b48
>
> I modified KLEE to give more details regarding the cause of the error,
> and it turned out to be that the errno is EMFILE -
> too many open files. I adapted KLEE to avoid crashing by redirecting
> the output to stderr instead of dereferencing a NULL file object, and
> I ran "lsof" on it, while executing after the first error occured. The
> results:
>
> klee      10269     ubuntu  155r      DIR    8,1     4096 589827
> /home/ubuntu
> klee      10269     ubuntu  156r      DIR    8,1     4096 589827
> /home/ubuntu
> klee      10269     ubuntu  157r      DIR    8,1     4096 589827
> /home/ubuntu
> klee      10269     ubuntu  158r      DIR    8,1     4096 589827
> /home/ubuntu
> klee      10269     ubuntu  159r      DIR    8,1     4096 589827
> /home/ubuntu
> klee      10269     ubuntu  160r      REG    8,1      729 377494
> /etc/group
> klee      10269     ubuntu  161r      DIR    8,1     4096 589827
> /home/ubuntu
> [.... more similar results, with the home directory open many many  
> times ...]
>
> ubuntu at domU-12-31-39-04-26-31:~$ lsof | grep klee | wc -l
> 439
>
> I also noticed that while KLEE does not crash anymore, no subsequent
> test files could be written after the initial failure moment. Do you
> have any idea where should I look in the code to fix the problem?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Stefan
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