Hi Fernando, do you happen to have the exact error message? The simplest search through the zef source didn't find anything related, so perhaps it was actually "too many open files" caused by a too-low limit on open file descriptors?
`ulimit -a` on my system gives me `Maximum number of open file descriptors (-n) 1048576` because i have set it to "a very high value" at some point in the past in /etc/security/limits.conf, but some systems have it at an obnoxiously low number. Obviously we don't want zef to open billions of file descriptors just to go through a directory or something, so tracking that down further could be interesting if that is the case. HTH - Timo On 01/08/2020 22:46, Fernando Santagata wrote: > Hello, > > I found out that on my system at a certain point zef was unable to > read the content of ~/.raku/short and because of that to install any > other module. > According to zef there were too many files in that directory and > indeed there were a lot of subdirectories. > > I don't know what happened, because I try to keep my installation lean > and I uninstall old versions of all the modules that I update. > > Is it possible that zef failed to update that directory content when, > I don't know, a module fails to install or something like that, > leaving behind unused directories? > Has that happened to anyone else? > > -- > Fernando Santagata
