Re: [Tracker] "too many files opened" critical messages

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 28/07/09 12:54, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:23 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > If you can break during running tracker-miner-fs in the function on the
> > line you reported earlier (tracker-crawler.c, line 854) where the error
> > occurs that would be great. You should see how many iterators there are
> > at the time.
> >
> > I wonder if this is caused by having very deep file systems? Hmm. It
> > would be interesting to know what file this happens for too.
>
> original tracker used breadth first recursive scanning so this was never
> a problem
>
> Depth first scanning is broken and should never be used because of file
> handle limits

And we should too, but if there is only one breadth then it is still 
possible.

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Regards,
Martyn