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

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:03, Phil Sackinger wrote:
> 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)

one open file exceeds the limit? :-)

> 
> 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?

I have no idea as I have heard no such rumour nor have I any idea was to
what that could be in reference to.

> 
> 
> > 
> > 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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Jeffrey Stedfast
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