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[macOS and Linux] PSES crashes - System.IO.IOException: Too many open files

See original GitHub issue

System Details

Operating system name and version:
- macOS 10.12.6
- Ubuntu 16.0
VS Code version: 1.15.1
PowerShell extension version: 1.14.1
Output from $PSVersionTable (on macOS):

Name                           Value                                                                                                                                               
----                           -----                                                                                                                                               
PSVersion                      6.0.0-beta                                                                                                                                          
PSEdition                      Core                                                                                                                                                
GitCommitId                    v6.0.0-beta.6                                                                                                                                       
OS                             Darwin 16.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jun 15 17:36:27 PDT 2017; root:xnu-3789.70.16~2/RELEASE_X86_64                                      
Platform                       Unix                                                                                                                                                
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                                                                             
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                                                                                 
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1                                                                                                                                             
WSManStackVersion              3.0

From macOS:

PS> code -v
1.15.1
41abd21afdf7424c89319ee7cb0445cc6f376959
PS> $pseditor.EditorServicesVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
1      4      1      0


PS> code --list-extensions --show-versions
Shan.code-settings-sync@2.8.3
donjayamanne.python@0.7.0
fabianlauer.vs-code-xml-format@0.1.5
florianloch.text-transform@0.1.0
idleberg.applescript@0.6.1
ms-vscode.cpptools@0.12.3
ms-vscode.csharp@1.12.1
ms-vscode.PowerShell@1.4.1
slevesque.vscode-hexdump@1.4.0
PS> $PSVersionTable

Issue Description

Things start to go wrong when the PS version cannot be determined and the version is assumed to be v5:

[WARNING] - Method "GetVersionDetails" at line 153 of C:\projects\powershelleditorservices\src\PowerShellEditorServices\Session\PowerShellVersionDetails.cs

  Failed to look up PowerShell version, defaulting to version 5.

In effect, the Editor Services don’t work properly on either platform, but some aspects still work on Linux, such as F8.

On macOS, the logs show additional failures:

System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Too many open files) ---> System.IO.IOException: Too many open files
...
PowerShell Editor Services is terminating due to an unhandled exception

Note that ulimit -n (number of files that can be open simultaneously) still defaults to 256 as of macOS 10.12.6.

Attached Logs

macOs.zip

ubuntu.zip

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

tom-hendersoncommented, Jan 14, 2018

Hi @daviwil, just wondering if you were able to look into this at all? I’m getting the same ‘Too many open files in system’ issue and lsof shows a huge number of files open under powershell processes.

I’m using VS Code 1.19.2, vscode-powershell 1.5.1 and MacOS 10.12.6.

2reactions

daviwilcommented, Sep 13, 2017

Thanks for the additional details! I’ll see if I can figure out a better way to open those files to work around the handle leakage, might be able to ship an update in the next couple of days.