From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stephen Gildea <stepheng+emacs@gildea.com>, 51110@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51110: Native-comp leaks fds open on /dev/ptmx
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 20:13:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjftuftz9kc.fsf@ma.sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0imw24x.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:15:26 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Stephen Gildea <stepheng+emacs@gildea.com>
>> cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>, 51110@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 10:01:43 -0700
>>
>> Apparently what's happening is that Emacs forks off a child Emacs to do
>> the compile and allocates a pty to the child. These ptys are not
>> closed until the compile completes. It seems Emacs needs to better
>> manage the number of simultaneous open ptys. Or at least be able to
>> wait and retry if an open fails.
>
> Emacs limits the number of these background processes, see
> native-comp-async-jobs-number. (The value zero means use half of the
> number of execution units available in the system's processor.) So we
> generally shouldn't have more than that number of open pipes at any
> given time. For the obvious reasons they cannot be closed until the
> sub-process exits.
Is there any action we need/can take on this bug?
Thanks
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-30 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-09 15:45 bug#51110: Native-comp leaks fds open on /dev/ptmx Stephen Gildea
2021-10-09 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 17:01 ` Stephen Gildea
2021-10-09 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-30 20:13 ` Andrea Corallo [this message]
2021-11-30 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-30 20:24 ` Andrea Corallo
2021-11-30 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 2:28 ` Stephen Gildea
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