[Evolution] death by "too many open files"?/emacs key bindings?

[Phil Sackinger]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:33, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> depends on what files are open I guess

/home/me/evolution/local/myfoldername/mbox.ibex.index (nfsserver:/u/me)

At one point I heard folklore  that Solaris NFS servers and Linux NFS
clients [Solaris 8; Linux = RH7.3] do not always reliably interact.

Might that have something to do with the problem?


> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:03, Phil Sackinger wrote:
> > I've noticed Evo 1.4.4 dying after, oh, about a week or so because of
> > "too many open files". 
> > 
> > An "lsof | grep evolution | wc" gives me 6748 lines.
> > 
> > Lots of entries say "can't identify protocol".
> > 
> > Is this:
> >  	an evo problem, 
> > 	me with too many folders, or 
> > 	a system limitation that I should fix (ulimit -n)?
> > 
> > On an unrelated matter, I'd like to get emacs style keybindings that I
> > enjoyed under Evo 1.2 and can't find in 1.4.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > P.S.
> >  
> > 
> > 
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