[Mailman-Developers] Problem running tox on hyperkitty

[Abhilash Raj]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018, at 5:57 AM, Leon Merten Lohse wrote:
> On 19.03.2018 23:30, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> > I am trying to run
> > 
> > tox -e py35-django111
> > 
> > on HyperKitty. I run into an issue in that the tests run up to a point
> > after which all but the last 2 fail with a "too many open files"
> > exception. These files are logs created in directories
> > /tmp/hyperkitty-testing-*, and over 100 /tmp/hyperkitty-testing-*
> > directories are left behind. This is with an open file limit of 1024.
> 
> It might look like that but the logs are not the actual problem as those 
> files are properly closed after the test finishes.
> 
> I tried to disable logging to files all together but the problem persisted.
> 
> The real cause for the excessive number of file descriptors is django-q, 
> which creates opens lots and lots of files (for inter process 
> communication?).

It was trying to create File Descriptors and failing every time, but I am not 100% sure if that itself is the reason for this. It could be, but I can't replicate this issue easily, maybe filing a bug with django-q and seeing what they think might be worthwhile?

> 
> Best
> Leon
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