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Subject: Re: 2.01-b8 & VM 6.20: too many open files
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David Moore writes:
>Damon Lipparelli <lipp@primus.com> writes:
>
>> In the process of reading my mail this morning, I got the above error
>> selecting a message from Morioka Tomohiko.  After this, I couldn't do much
>> of anything in VM (saving my INBOX, moving from message to message, sending 
>> this bug report) without getting the same error with a different stack
>> trace.  I'm including the backtrace from an attempt to save my INBOX.
>> 
>> -lipp
>> 
>> ps: I had to exit XEmacs without saving my INBOX.  Once I re-started and
>>     recovered my INBOX, everything seemed to be working again.  But, I
>>     couldn't send this without the same error.  Let's try this again....
>> 
>> Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open" "too many open files" . "/tmp/vm20802.67")
>
>The next time this happens can you collect the output from
>`M-x list-processes'.
>
>If you get in this state, you should immediately go and kill any `*ftp'
>buffers and shell-mode buffers you have around.
>
>You can most likely type `limit' at the shell prompt from which you
>start xemacs to see how many open files you are limited too.  On some
>systems you can also up this value.
>
>
>Although this sounds more like some other problem than just shortage of
>fds; maybe the gif or jpeg code or something isn't closing open files.

  GIF is the only thing that uses temp files as of B102

-Bill P.

