Error: EMFILE: too many open files, open

[masukomi]

I'm pounding on my local sbot with the following command

sbot links --dest "<id here>" --rel vote --values

I'm using a different id on each request. Somewhere after 10,000 requests (don't have enough scrollback in my terminal to tell you exactly where) I get this with every request. To me this suggests that something is not being cleaned up after each request.

{ Error: EMFILE: too many open files, open '/Users/masukomi/.ssb/gossip.json~'
  errno: -24,
  code: 'EMFILE',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '/Users/masukomi/.ssb/gossip.json~' }

[christianbundy]

Thanks for reporting this! I think gossip.json~ is being created by atomic-file when modifications are done, but I'm unsure why that's happening on every request. Hmm.

[masukomi]

update. reran with better logging and checking of exit codes. This happened again a little after 13700 requests. I have 74 copies of that error in the console output BEFORE it returned a non-zero exit code to the requesting process.

So, I think there are actually 2 errors.

1. leaving stuff open
2. failing to return a non-zero exit code on some requests that produce this result.

cc @christianbundy

[stale]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?