On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). 25 is equally sound as I could not find any hard calculation on that number in the history or code. I will change it to 25 in the next version of the patch. Thanks! Stefan -- 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