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Too many open files

Bug #293573 reported by Jarkko Lietolahti on 2008-11-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	eclipse (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Niels Thykier

Bug Description

The default number of allowed open files (which is 1024) is too low for many situtations. E.g. when developing with Eclipse with many different plugins installed it's very easy to get "Too many open files" Exception.

The fix is to setup number of allowed files larger than 1024. This is done /etc/security/limits.conf

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/eclipse

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Jarkko Lietolahti (jarkko-jab) wrote on 2008-11-04:

limits.conf Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Jarkko Lietolahti (jarkko-jab) wrote on 2008-11-04:

The relevant part in limits.conf:

* hard nofile 50000
* soft nofile 50000

This allows 50000 simultanous open files per user.

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote on 2009-12-21:

Hi Jarkko Lietolahti

I know it has been a while since you reported this bug and I assume you by now already have put this work around to use. Nevertheless, I stumbled upon an interesting blog in regards to this[1] that may solve the problem without changing the system limit.

I have not tested this - I have never experienced this issue with eclipse, but know that a lot of users have been affected by it.

~Niels

[1] http://tech-torch.blogspot.com/2009/07/solution-fix-is-adding-following-entry.html

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote on 2010-01-16:

This will be fixed in the next upload of eclipse.

~Niels

affects:	pam (Ubuntu) → eclipse (Ubuntu)
Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Niels Thykier (niels-thykier)
status:	New → Fix Committed

Benjamin Drung (bdrung) on 2010-01-17

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-01-30:

This bug was fixed in the package eclipse - 3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2

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eclipse (3.5.1+repack~3-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Rebase to packaging from pkg-java/eclipse (thanks to Niels Thykier):
    + Set a sane file limit for osgi-bundles. (Closes: #558693, LP: #293573)
    + Inject update sites on first run. (LP: #460944)
    + Prevent conflict with swt-gtk's swt packages.
      - Rename our swt packages.
      - Do not install conflicting symlinks/files.
      (Closes: #541638, LP: #491880)
    + Imported patch from Fedora that fixes seg. faults in libpango.
      (LP: #445009)
    + Update manpage. (LP: #494065)
    + Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4.
  * Re-add versioned dependency on libcommons-el-java, libjetty-java,
    libservlet2.4-java; the packages are now available in Ubuntu.
  * Drop versioned dependency on liblucene2-java and libmx4j-java; they are not
    yet available in Ubuntu.
-- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:55:04 +0100