Re: Landing feature/more-fds for Emacs 30?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:12:19 +0000, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> 
>>>>> said:

    João> Hi Elliott,
    João> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 16:10 Elliott Shugerman <eeshugerman@gmail.com> 
wrote:

    >> 
    >> I work on a large codebase with LSP and used to run into the "too many
    >> open files" error all the time unless I disabled desired functionality or
    >> gave up native-comp. Now, with this patch, not only is that issue gone
    >> entirely, but I find Emacs is generally more responsive and stable on 
macOS.
    >> 

    João> What LSP server are you using? Is it perhaps requesting many file 
watchers?
    João> Or maybe the client is overwatching on the Emacs side (what client 
are you
    João> using?). Do you have a JSONRPC transcript that you can share with me?

Itʼs a macOS thing: file watching there uses a file descriptor
per-file, unlike Linux, which uses one per-directory.

Robert
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