Thanks Michael. ulimit reports a max number of open files of 1024. The number of entries listed via "/ls -1 /proc/25679/fd/* | wc -l" where 25679 is the relevant pid grows rapidly until it hits 1024 and then the process quits.
Is this a sphinx error to be reported there? John 2009/4/15 mabshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>: > > > > 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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
