Re: [Duplicity-talk] [Errno 24] Too many open files

[Robin Smidsrød]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Robin Smidsrød wrote:
>   
> > I'm getting this error message:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 522, in <module>
> >  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 516, in with_tempdir
> >  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 498, in main
> >  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 209, in full_backup
> >  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 131, in write_multivol
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py", line 224, in
> > GPGWriteFile
> >  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py", line 103, in
> > __init__
> >  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/GnuPGInterface.py", line 357,
> > in run
> >  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/GnuPGInterface.py", line 388,
> > in _attach_fork_exec
> > OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
> >
> > Is there anything I can do with this problem, or is it a duplicity
> > problem that needs to be fixed?
> >     
>
> What version of duplicity?  The current version is 0.5.02 and an update
> may help.
$ duplicity --version
duplicity 0.5.02

>   Also, what is the command line?
It's one of these three, I believe it's the second one:

duplicity cleanup --force file:////storage/backup/duplicity/kontor/photowork
duplicity --full-if-older-than 1W --exclude-other-filesystems 
/var/autofs/cifs/photowork 
file:////storage/backup/duplicity/kontor/photowork
duplicity remove-older-than 1W --force 
file:////storage/backup/duplicity/kontor/photowork

As you can see, I'm backing up a Windows SMB share via autofs automatic 
mounting (shouldn't really be of any concern, AFAIK).
>   Any other info you can share
> would be helpful.
>   
$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
126923

$ uname -a
Linux server 2.6.27-7-server #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 05:04:11 UTC 2008 i686 
GNU/Linux

OS: Ubuntu 8.10 (server)

$ python --version
Python 2.5.2

-- Robin