<tomas <at> tuxteam.de> writes: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 09:24:37AM +0000, Andrey wrote: > > > > Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes: > > > > > > > > On 2016-06-16 21:46 +0600, Andrew P. Cherepenko wrote: > > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > 'open()' for creating file sometimes returns an error: > > > > couldn't open "myfile.txt": resource temporarily unavailable > > > > either in background process or interactively (ex: in Emacs when > > > > trying to save a file). > > > > > > Are you sure that it's opening the file which fails in that way, and not > > > writing to it? > > > > Yes. I am pretty sure. > > If the problem is somehow repeatable, you might try to run your > program under strace to actually pinpoint the system call setting > EAGAIN (perhaps you've already done that, but I couldn't imply > that from your post). >
It happens very rare and rather unpredictable sometimes when a lot of files are created and sometimes without such obvious signs. > Other things to check: does that happen on any files? On a > specific file system? If yes: how is that one mounted? > It happens to any file on any ext4 partition which are locally mounted. Is there a way to find out at least which part of the system is responsible for 'resource temporarily unavailable'. All the best, Andrey
