On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a big computation with many @parallel decorators I eventually get
> [Errno 31] Too many links: '/home/vbraun/.sage//temp/hostname/26457/'
> This is caused by trying to create >2^15 ~ 32k subdirectories, which is an
> ext2/ext3 limitation. Is there any reason why the @parallel forker creates
> its own temp directories but then does not clean them up?

That sounds like a hideous bug!  Report it.

William

>  Each NNNN
> subdirectory contains a single empty interface/ subdirectory.
> PS: This is on a NFS partition, just deleting 32k directories takes a
> loooong time.
>
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