On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 05:31:11PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > When running the test locally, i.e. not in the test suite, but typing > the commands > myself into the shell, Git is fine with having just 5 file descriptors left. > The additional 4 required fds come from beign run inside the test suite. > > When strace-ing git, I cannot see any possible other fds which would require > having some left over space required. So I'd propose we'd just take a reasonable > number not too small for various test setups like 32 and then go with the > proposed patches. FWIW, we already use a magic value of "25 extra" in open_packed_git_1. I don't know if that means the number has been proven in practice, or if it is simply that nobody actually exercises the pack_max_fds code. I suspect it is the latter, especially since d131b7a (sha1_file.c: Don't retain open fds on small packs, 2011-03-02). -Peff -- 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