On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 08:15, Pete Wyckoff <pw@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Somebody at $work found this problem: > > $ git ls-files -s | wc > error: packfile .git/objects/pack/pack-1627e77da82bbb36118762649c8aa88c05664b1e.pack cannot be accessed > [..lots more similar errors..] > > Turns out his shell's open file descriptor limit was 500. And > there are 1600 pack files in the repo. > > Increasing the descriptor limit to 1024 fixed it. I could > probably get him to repack, which may also fix it. > > Does it seem feasible to look for EMFILE errors and close > some packs? Or at least spit out a more intuitive error? What version of Git? I remember fixing this already.... :-) -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html