N900 - too many open files

[Volker Krause]

On Sunday 13 June 2010 14:16:35 Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a hint for N900 users. Some parts of kdepim (I guess nepomuk) seems
> to be quite generous in opening lots of files.
>
> At least on my system this results "too many open files" errors after a
> while.
>
> Symptoms: Empty dialogs in kmail-mobile, akonadiconsole fails to start
> (unable to load xxx.so)
>
> Work-around: Increase allowed number of open files (as root):
>
> echo 99999 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>
> The default is 8192, choose a value that suits you. 99999 might be a bit
> too much, but it works here.

I've seen this before, seemd to be caused by a fd leak in the nepomuk 
filesystem indexer. Since that one is disabled in the new package, this 
should no longer happen (it did not on any of my devices at least).

regards
Volker
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-mobile/attachments/20100617/830e0196/attachment.sig