Re: [Duplicity-talk] OSError: [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable

[Chris Poole]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> could you post the -v9 output again please? there would be a log entry if the
> fix is not possible

Sure, see the attached file. (After I replaced GnuPGInterface.py with the
version Ken pointed to.)

2011/6/25 Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden>:
> 8192 is not a big number for file descriptors.  Try doubling or quadrupling
> that.
>
> File descriptors are cheap resources.  It does not hurt to have too many.

I tried changing ulimit to a higher number:

    % ulimit -n 100000
    limit: setrlimit failed: invalid argument

    % sudo ulimit -n 100000
    /usr/bin/ulimit: line 4: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit:
Invalid argument

I also tried adding

    kern.maxfiles=100000
    kern.maxfilesperproc=100000
    kern.maxproc=100000
    kern.maxprocperuid=100000

to /etc/sysctl.conf. Still no dice sadly. All values except macproc were
correctly changed after a restart, but it didn't improve the situation.

20000 seems to be about as high as ulimit will go (on Mac Snow Leopard, 10.6.8),
which seems to be nowhere near enough for this restore operation.

Any more ideas?


Thanks

Chris


PS. As a side note, if I was to exclude my photos directory and make an
incremental backup, would the same number of files still need to be processed?
(The photos directory is roughly a quarter of the total backup size, maybe
more.)

ss-backup-error-new-gpginterface.log.bz2
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