[distcc] too many open files

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Wed Nov 27 17:18:01 GMT 2002


On 24 Nov 2002, Alastair Tse <alastair at liquidx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using distcc for the last couple of weeks and its great.
> However, I've been running into some problems recently. The problem is
> that after running distcc for a while, it would complain about too many
> open files and stop processing, hence any compilation job running would
> be stalled as well.
> 
> I'm running distccd on a box with the following parameters:
> 
> distccd --no-fork --no-detach --daemon --log-file=/tmp/distccd.log
> 
> as a normal user (not as root).

Don't use --no-fork.  This is for debugging use only.

-- 
Martin



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