On Dec 20, 2009, at 07:41, David Evans wrote: > I upped the max number of open files using ulimit from > 256 to 10000 and ran my massive build again. > > While the build was running I monitored the files opened > by tclsh8.5 using > > sudo lsof | grep -i tcl | grep receipts | wc -l > > There were 272 instances of > > /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/file_map.db > > open. I think we have a file open leak.
I have seen the "too many open files" problem myself when having MacPorts install a lot of ports at once. Thanks for finding out which file is the problem. Could you please file an issue in the issue tracker with your findings? _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users