Re: Too many files open error on CVS/Linux

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Brett G. Palmer wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:10:35 -0600
> From: Brett G. Palmer <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [info-cvs] Too many files open error on CVS/Linux
> 
> We run cvs on Redhat 7.0.  CVS runs well for a few weeks but then we start
> to get errors saying the following:
> 
> cvs server: cannot open .cvsignore: Too many open files
> cvs server: cannot open .cvswrappers: Too many open files
> cvs server: cannot open current directory: Too many open files

Do you have a cycle in your modules definition file? That's one way to
get this.