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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-01-05 13:42:31 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-01-05 13:42:31 -0400
commit1cf23b8adc1d9b680083b8f04f2ec9a199550462 (patch)
treee5b809a3b106d77725660b78a4a244197781ab2c /doc/bugs/assistant___40__OS_X_Lion__41___-___34__too_many_open_files__34___error.mdwn
parentb73a3fa6461ae98302a1c98d90588dd748304961 (diff)
committer: Fix a file handle leak.
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@@ -24,3 +24,9 @@ What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
Please provide any additional information below.
I imagine I could avoid this error by using the "ulimit -n" command to increase number of files in a shell session and then running assistant manually, so this is really only a bug report about the bundled application.
+
+> This seems to be caused by Command.Add.lockdown not closing the
+> temporary file handle, so when called in a mapM by the committer
+> thread when there are a lot of files, it could build up a lot of
+> open handles before later GC closes them. Added a manual close,
+> so I think this is [[done]]. --[[Joey]]