Hi,
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 04:48:39AM +0100, Mårten Svantesson wrote:
> > While trying to run gimp 1.2.0 on Solaris 7/SPARC:
> > $ gimp
> >
> > Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file
> > /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Bears: can't happen?
> > Gimp-WARNING **: Failed to open palette file
> > /home/china/.gimp-1.2/palettes/Bgold: can't happen?
>
> <snip>
> > This works without a hitch on Solaris 8/SPARC. Well, turns out the
> > default number of file descriptors on Solaris 8/SPARC is 256. On
> > Solaris 7/SPARC, it's 64 (look at output of 'limit' command).
> > Modifying this with:
> > $ ulimit -n 256
> > solved the problem. To bump the number of file descriptors system
> > wide, add the following to /etc/system:
> > * set soft limit on file descriptors
> > set rlim_fd_cur = 256
>
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to make gimp call setrlimit to fix this if,
> say, the limit is below 256? And if it turns out the hard limit is to low
> the user should get a warning.
Without having looked at the code - what do we need that many FDs for?!
We don't need to open all palettes at once, do we?
Bye, Tino.
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