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25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X

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Message #25 received at 22814-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22814-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david <at> porkrind.org
Subject: Re: bug#22814: 25.0.91; Emacs runs out of file descriptors on OS X
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:05:25 +0100

Version: 25.1

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:34:50 +0100
>> Cc: 22814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> You are using "global-auto-revert-mode: t". kqueue does not support a
>> directory monitor, therefore it starts a new file notification monitor
>> for every single file, indeed.
>> 
>> I believe it is questionable to run auto-revert-mode for so many files,
>> but that's your choice. In order to suppress kqueue running for
>> auto-revert-mode, you shall set auto-revert-use-notify to nil.
>> 
>> Maybe there are means in OS X to increase the number of file descriptors
>> for Emacs, don't know. I don't use OS X.
>> 
>> I will add a note to the Emacs manual.
>
> I suggest adding this to etc/PROBLEMS as well.

Done. Closing the bug.

Best regards, Michael.

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