[Yum] Assertion `fd && fd->magic == 0x04463138'

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using yum to udpate ~2000 rpms and around the ~1000 rpm
> I usually get :
>
> Assertion `fd && fd->magic == 0x04463138'
>
> A bit of googeling shows thats a limitation of the
> open file handles, which is 1024.
> So setting ulimit -n 8192 fixes the problem, but I think
> that yum/rpm (?) has a filedescriptor leak somewhere.
>
> Is this right?
> Can it be fixed?
>
> There a many fds in the state "CLOSEWAIT"
> and all seem to be open:
>
> pxe3:~ # lsof -p 5384 | grep http | wc -l
> 1788
>

what version of yum, rpm and urlgrabber are you using?

-sv