Too many open files

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 20, 2009, at 07:41, David Evans wrote:

> I upped the max number of open files using ulimit from
> 256 to 10000 and ran my massive build again.
> 
> While the build was running I monitored the files opened
> by tclsh8.5 using
> 
> sudo lsof | grep -i tcl | grep receipts | wc -l
> 
> There were 272 instances of
> 
> /opt/local/var/macports/receipts/file_map.db
> 
> open.  I think we have a file open leak.

I have seen the "too many open files" problem myself when having MacPorts install a lot of ports at once. Thanks for finding out which file is the problem. Could you please file an issue in the issue tracker with your findings?