[Mailman-Developers] Problem running tox on hyperkitty

[Abhilash Raj]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018, at 3:30 PM, 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.
> 
> If I raise the limit to 4096, everything runs and no
> /tmp/hyperkitty-testing-* directories are left behind, but it seems
> perhaps hyperkitty/tests/utils.TestCase._post_teardown() should have
> something added to undo what hyperkitty/tests/utils.setup_logging() sets up.

Thanks a lot to find the real reason for this problem. I did find this problem when I was working on the Python 3 port but couldn't really pin-point the real reason for why is this happening.

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