Re: tramp-archive.elc opened too many times

[Michael Albinus]

Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:

I've forwarded this to debbugs.gnu.org, bug#70669.

> Hello, I am getting DoSed with "Too many open files", and they all
> seem to be tramp-archive.elc
>
> I have  tramp-archive-enabled => nil
> (featurep 'tramp-gvfs) => nil
>
> The only "weird" buffer I have is a file in Zip-Archive mode.
>
> $ lsof -n | grep tramp-archive | wc -l => 5015
> of these 1003 entries are from the main emacs process
> and 1003 entries are from 4 pthread tasks each as below
>
> ```
> emacs     10143                 madhu   16r      REG               8,14     
> 27080    1401209 /14/build/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-archive.elc
> emacs     10143 10264 pool-spaw    madhu   16r      REG               8,14    
> 27080 1401209 /14/build/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-archive.elc
> emacs     10143 10265 gmain        madhu   16r      REG               8,14    
> 27080 1401209 /14/build/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-archive.elc
> emacs     10143 10266 dconf\x20    madhu   16r      REG               8,14    
> 27080 1401209 /14/build/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-archive.elc
> emacs     10143 10267 gdbus        madhu   16r      REG               8,14    
> 27080 1401209 /14/build/emacs/lisp/net/tramp-archive.elc
> ```
>
> Any ideas why this might be happening or if it is a solved problem,
> and if I can isolate myself from it?
>
> problems with dbus tend to be fatal, once you get into a situaion the
> design of dbus prevents recovery and forces the removal of all
> evidence which might have caused the attack...