AW: AW: bzr selftest (on solaris 10): too may open files

[Voelker, Bernhard]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> I'm a bit curious why you would be running into problems. I don't see
> any reason why bzr would need more than 256 file handles open
> *concurrently*. It makes me wonder if Sun isn't re-using previously
> opened file handles.

Solaris does not have a problem with re-using file handles - the apps
only have to close them properly.

> So in the end, I would guess at something more like the python garbage
> collector not releasing files properly, or some odd interaction with
the
> os. I certainly don't see any reason why we would have more than a
> handful of file handles open concurrently.

I also bet the problem to be located in python garbage collector.

Is python 2.4.4 supposed to work with bzr?

I'm not familiar with python, but could bzr call the garbage collector
after each test? (On the other side, this would taint the test because
this is not done in normal code I guess...).

Have a nice day,
Berny