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#17827
“Too many open files” error while substituter is running
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Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:25:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
While running the substituter in a disk/VM image built with Guix (on the
metal or on QEMU), I quickly stumble upon EMFILE. It goes like this:
1. Run ‘guix build emacs -n’ to warm up /var/guix/substitute-binary;
this (currently) uses many threads and everything, but doesn’t
cause any problems.
2. Run ‘guix build emacs’. This starts downloading substitutes, via
‘guix substitute-binary --substitute’. It works fine, except that
running something in parallel like ‘guix package --help’ quickly
fails with EMFILE (“Too many open files”.)
Looking at /proc/sys/fs/file-nr suggests we’re still way below the
threshold at that point. Increasing file-max doesn’t make a difference.
Looking at the strace output of the failing ‘guix package --help’ shows
that it does lots of open/close calls, but remains at 10 open files.
Eventually, one of its close(2) calls (!) returns EMFILE, and all the
subsequent open(2) calls fail similarly.
The problem seems to manifest more easily when there’s a lot of RAM,
which made me thing of a Scheme file port leak.
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Message #10 received at 17827-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
The problem was that the unionfs process for the root file system would
run out of file descriptors (the default limit is 1024.)
Fixed in commit 9b9148d.
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