From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: (file-error "Creating pipe" "too many open files") Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:28 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: sds@podval.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152797758 28721 80.91.229.2 (13 Jul 2006 13:35:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 13 15:35:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G11M1-0007yR-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:35:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G11M0-00015O-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G11Lq-00015H-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G11Ln-00014z-9k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G11Ln-00014w-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.155.124.107] (helo=janestcapital.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G11NY-0006Ia-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:37:21 -0400 Original-Received: from loki.janestcapital.quant [209.213.205.130] by janestcapital.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.13) id AC2178009E; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from quant8.janestcapital.quant (quant8.janestcapital.quant [192.168.250.217]) by loki.janestcapital.quant (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC60369FFC; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from quant8.janestcapital.quant (PLEASE_CONFIG_NETWORK [127.0.0.1]) by quant8.janestcapital.quant (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k6DDZShx001117; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:28 -0400 Original-Received: (from sds@localhost) by quant8.janestcapital.quant (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6DDZSvU001116; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:35:28 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: quant8.janestcapital.quant: sds set sender to sds@podval.org using -f Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56972 Archived-At: GNU Emacs 22.0.50.13 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-07-10 on quant8 I now get this, all of a sudden: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Creating pipe" "too many open files") start-process("ispell" nil "aspell" "-a" "-m" "-d" "en" "--encoding=utf-8" "-p" "/home/sds/.ispell") apply(start-process "ispell" nil "aspell" "-a" "-m" ("-d" "en" "--encoding=utf-8" "-p" "/home/sds/.ispell")) the only unusual thing is that gdb window has this: ... Detaching after fork from child process 19412. Detaching after fork from child process 19420. Detaching after fork from child process 19444. ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1090:(snd_pcm_direct_open_secondary_client) unable to open hardware Detaching after fork from child process 883. ... (there are lot's of "Detaching" messages because every dired &c generates it). (length (process-list)) ==> 7 there is nothing unusual there. how do I get out of this predicament (short of restarting emacs)? I mean, maybe I can do something under gdb to close some files? I have ~180 buffers, most non-file. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) on Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) http://ffii.org http://jihadwatch.org http://thereligionofpeace.com http://honestreporting.com http://mideasttruth.com http://dhimmi.com Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.