Re: [Duplicity-talk] Welcome to the "Duplicity-talk" mailing list

[David Williams]

On 08/17/2017 03:10 PM, Alex Bloom via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> I've since upgraded and fixed the config file that things are working 
> again. Now im running into a new problem with my restoring of a file.
>
> [...]
> OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
>
>
> my ulimit -a is showing open files as 4096 as i adjusted it to that 
> and im still having issues. I'm trying to fetch a single file out of 
> the s3 backup. Any ideas, this is a blocker for me trying to restore a 
> file.

I've ran into similar error (during 'verify', I think) and ended up 
setting ulimit -n 500000.  My *guess* is that there is a bug somewhere 
such that files are not closed when they should be, but never looked 
into it.
(BTW, I am sure that my 500000 is larger than I probably need, but after 
several incremental increases decided to go "all out". If I recall, I 
had to google around to find some setting in sysctl (or similar) to 
allow me to set the ulimit that high).