From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chrisw@rice.edu (Christopher Warrington) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:30:13 -0600 Subject: [sup-talk] Ferret Errors In-Reply-To: <1193970558-sup-3687@south> References: <1193693839-sup-8512@chris-tablet> <1193970558-sup-3687@south> Message-ID: <1194928185-sup-2189@chris-tablet> (So, this has been sitting in my drafts folder FOREVER...) Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Nov 01 21:32:19 -0500 2007: > Yeah, the typical completely incomprehensible Ferret error message. > Current known things that make Ferret generate scary messages: > - running more than one process touching the index at the same time (Sup > locks the index now so this shouldn't happen unless you are being > particularly devious) Perhaps... I'm not explicitly running two copies of sup, nor am I running sup and another sup- tool at the same time. I'm just composing a message. > - having too many open filehandles, including too many "usual" mbox > sources at the moment until I fix the mbox code not to keep > filehandles open all the time. I don't think so. > - running out of disk space. Nope. > Could it have been any of those? If MIGHT be the first. It just happened again. I think that it only happens when I am composing a message and, during a background poll for new messages, sup finds one. This might not even be the problem, but, it seems to me, that the editor does not need to have sup's open files handles. -- Christopher Warrington