On Apr 15, 4:03 am, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This happned while doing sage -docbuild reference html (with 3,4,1,rc2):

Hi John,

> sage/calculus/calculus Exception occurred:
>   File "/home/jec/sage-3.4.1.rc2/local/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py",
> line 1003, in _execute_child
>     errpipe_read, errpipe_write = os.pipe()
> OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files

This has been reported by Florent Hivert before, but so far I have
been unable to reproduce it. So it is possibly a local config problem,
i.e. check with ulimit regarding the maximum open file handles you are
allowed.

<SNIP>

> It's on a 64-bit Suse linux machine, specifically Bill Hart's machine,
> so if Bill is reading and knows what I can do then please speak up!
> Or anyone else of course.
>
> It seems that if I keep typing "sage -docbuild reference html" then it
> does a bit more each time, but that is a little tedious.  I had no
> problem building the pdf.

Hmm, maybe Sphinx leaks handles?

If you watch  /proc/<pid of python program>/fd/ you might get
something useful.

> John

Cheers,

Michael
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