Interesting.  I've noticed the segfaults in the past, but never the "too 
many open files" error.  I'll try to play around with my ulimit and see if 
I can get the testing to finish.

On Friday, January 8, 2021 at 1:21:20 PM UTC-5 Matthias Koeppe wrote:

> I think this has started to show up, at least sporadically, with the 
> multiprocessing changes made in/for python 3.8, see 
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/27754
>
> Something definitely needs fixing.
>
> On Friday, January 8, 2021 at 9:55:06 AM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried to run "make -j8 ptestlong" on Big Sur? Every time I run 
>> it, doctesting breaks with the following traceback:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/Users/zscherr/sage/develop/src/bin/sage-runtests", line 182, in 
>> <module>
>>     err = DC.run()
>>   File 
>> "/Users/zscherr/sage/develop/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/doctest/control.py",
>>  
>> line 1236, in run
>>     self.run_doctests()
>>   File 
>> "/Users/zscherr/sage/develop/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/doctest/control.py",
>>  
>> line 937, in run_doctests
>>     self.dispatcher.dispatch()
>>   File 
>> "/Users/zscherr/sage/develop/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/doctest/forker.py",
>>  
>> line 2040, in dispatch
>>     self.parallel_dispatch()
>>   File 
>> "/Users/zscherr/sage/develop/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/doctest/forker.py",
>>  
>> line 1935, in parallel_dispatch
>>     w.start()  # This might take some time
>>   File 
>> "/Users/zscherr/sage/develop/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sage/doctest/forker.py",
>>  
>> line 2207, in start
>>     super(DocTestWorker, self).start()
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.1_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/process.py",
>>  
>> line 121, in start
>>     self._popen = self._Popen(self)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.1_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/context.py",
>>  
>> line 224, in _Popen
>>     return _default_context.get_context().Process._Popen(process_obj)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.1_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/context.py",
>>  
>> line 277, in _Popen
>>     return Popen(process_obj)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.1_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py",
>>  
>> line 19, in __init__
>>     self._launch(process_obj)
>>   File 
>> "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.1_4/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/multiprocessing/popen_fork.py",
>>  
>> line 65, in _launch
>>     child_r, parent_w = os.pipe()
>> OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
>> make: *** [ptestlong] Error 1
>>
>> Since I was trying to test in parallel I don't know exactly what's going 
>> on, but the last test that was attempted before this error was
>>
>> sage -t --long --warn-long 53.1 --random-seed=0 src/sage/doctest/test.py
>>
>> by itself this test seems to pass but causes a lot of random segfaults, 
>> although this is with homebrew's python 3.9.1.
>>
>

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