Re: [gedit-list] Too many files error

[Christopher Backhouse <cjbackhouse gmail com>]

I am using 2.18.1 (ships with Ubuntu Feisty)
I am using most of the plugins that come with gedit plus ClassBrowser
No files that failed to open as far as I remember.
I can't work out a simple way to reproduce. Both times I had quite a few 
 files (say 20) open and had been editing for several hours.

One other thing I forgot to mention, one time but not the other the name 
of the file it couldn't save was corrupted in the popup (the name showed 
as all squares). Could this plausibly be a sideeffect of running out of 
file handles or could it mean the bug is something else?

Note that I am running several other programs as well for this same 
longish period so it is possible that one of them may be to blame.

Sorry I can't be more helpful. I guess what I am looking for debugging 
steps I could take next time this happens (I plan to lsof | grep gedit | 
wc -l any other suggestions?)

I filed bug 456232

Thanks - Chris

Paolo Borelli wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 11/07/2007 alle 22.58 +0100, Christopher Backhouse ha
> scritto:
> > I have twice received the following error while editing a large number 
> > of files in gedit.
> >
> > "There are too many open files. Please close some applications and try 
> > again."
> >
> > I doubt I have exceeded the systemwide file-descriptor limit - 
> > presumably a lot of things would be complaining.
> >
> > Is this a bug in gedit? Is it actually leaking file handles?
>
> Which version of gedit? I know that at some point I fixed a missing
> close() call in an error path... did you try you try to open many files
> that failed loading? Can you reproduce easily?
> Or maybe is some plugins that is leaking the file descriptors... which
> plugins do you have active? Does disabling them make any difference?
>
> Can you file a bug in bugzilla and provide as many info as possible...
> if there is some case where we are leaking file descriptors I really
> want to find it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 	paolo
>
>
> >  How do I 
> > find out if some other process is to blame? I have been trying to work 
> > out how to get a list of processes sorted by number of fd's using lsof 
> > and some commandline magic.
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