Rob Fugina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There seems to be a file descriptor leak in packf which results in >messages like this:
>packf: unable to dup /full/path/.mailbox.map: Too many open files, continuing... >The packf process opens the output file enough times (without closing any) >to reach an OS limit around 1000 file descriptors. Moving >1000 (or so) >messages with packf results in this error. Seems to be opening the output >file once per message without closing. I haven't investigated deeply yet. >I will try to send a patch, but I'd like to know if anybody's aware of >the problem at this point... Strange. As a test, I just used packf to pack a mailbox with 1322 messages. It did so without a murmur. When also using "-mmdf", I will admit that it took too long and that it screwed up the ".map" file. Certainly the ".map" file construction is broken. But I didn't have any problem with running out of file descriptors. My current ulimit for descriptors is 64. (This is solaris 7). -NWR
