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

[Phil Sackinger]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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? :-)

Sorry I wasn't more clear. Definitely more than one. Overall, right now,

lsof|grep evolution|wc
7385

Some of the open files are what I expect:

evolution 30842 pasacki  mem    REG        8,2    14824   1368843
/usr/lib/bonob
o/monikers/libmoniker_std_2.so

and there's plenty (1531)  of those.

There are also lots (122) of open files that are:
evolution 30842 pasacki   16r  FIFO        0,5           15219446 pipe
evolution 30842 pasacki   17w  FIFO        0,5           15219446 pipe
evolution 30842 pasacki   18r  FIFO        0,5           15219447 pipe
.
.
.

But most strange are *man*y (5600) of these:

evolution 30842 pasacki   35u  sock        0,0           17110030 can't
identify
 protocol

and, lastly, about 179 of the mbox.ibex.index.data files open on my
nfsserver.

> 
> > 
> > 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.
I was afraid that evolution might be locking and unlocking files for
mail that were not getting closed properly due to some hanging NFS
connection. I'm speculating about subjects which I don't know, so I'm
probably way off base here.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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.