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Scott Blachowicz <scott@bloke.statsci.com> writes:

> Our news server has finally been reconstructed and I'm playing with
> later versions of gnus and started getting wierd problems with emacs
> failing to load various files, my visiting a file only to get an
> error about the file exists, but is unreadable and such.  All of the
> weirdness happened after I did `M-x gnus' (triggering the autoload
> of stuff).  Finally I saw an error message that led me to check my
> 'limit' command in my shell and sure enough, it said that I had a
> limit of 64 file descriptors.  I bumped it up to 256 and now I can
> run gnus.

What was the exact error message?

> So, my question is...has something happened that that would cause
> gnus/emacs (19.33 & xemacs 19.14) to chew up a whole lot more file
> descriptors?  Like I said, it's been a while...this might be the
> first time that I've gotten any 5.4.x release going...

Gnus is now a gazillion small files instead of one biiig file, and I
guess it might be possible that the chain of `require's and
`autoload's would keep a big number of files open at once (while
loading). 

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen