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| author | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2016-02-26 21:00:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> | 2016-02-26 21:00:28 +0100 |
| commit | b5db8e0461c5f36a8834f8912368ec40ea12d351 (patch) | |
| tree | c624e476367058d8d92da0c67845a6963ac20296 | |
| parent | ec10ef95cf2a5309ec7cb74f1383860a13daa546 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-b5db8e0461c5f36a8834f8912368ec40ea12d351.tar.gz | |
etc/PROBLEMS: Mention problems with using file descriptors
* etc/PROBLEMS: Mention problems with using file descriptors
of kqueue file notification library.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 7d780371d46..0491935b10c 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -600,6 +600,16 @@ you have a personal configuration file (normally ~/.aspell.conf), it can cause this error. Remove that file, execute 'ispell-kill-ispell' in Emacs, and then try spell-checking again. +*** Emacs eats all file descriptors when using kqueue file notifications. + +When you have a large number of buffers running auto-revert-mode, and +Emacs is configured to use the kqueue file notification library, it +uses an own file descriptor for every watched file. On systems with a +small limit of file descriptors allowed per process, like OS X, you +could run out of file descriptors. You won't be able to open new files. + +Set auto-revert-use-notify to nil in order to avoid this problem. + * Runtime problems related to font handling ** Characters are displayed as empty boxes or with wrong font under X. |