[haiku-development] How to increase files limit?

  • From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:43:59 +0200

Hello,

I've been playing with Subversion 1.7.0 (r936039, r937623) and for non- trivial stuff keep getting errors like this:

svn: Can't open '/tmp/svn-tempfile.2.tmp': Too many open files
svn: unable to open database file

This is reproducible by running:

svn co svn://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/mcs

As well as by subsequent `svn cleanup` and `svn up`, or by `svn upgrade` on a previous repository. With 1.6.x this didn't occur, so I suspect this is related to their upgrade of the repository format and/ or their use of SQLite (here 3.6.23.1).

On Linux it would be possible to do something like `echo 1024 > /proc/ sys/kernel/file-max` or `ulimit -n 1024`. On Haiku the latter results in:
sh: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not allowed
How can we achieve the equivalent on Haiku? Is there something like NR_FILE defined in the kernel?

Thanks,
Andreas

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