[p4] WSAEADDRINUSE error

[Frank Compagner]

Could it be that it is your script itself that is causing the error?
Is the script using the p4 commandline to connect to the server? How
many p4 commands do you run? If you use the p4 commandline a new
connection to the server is established for every command you run,
and, if I recall correctly, these are kept alive on the server side
for some time after the client is finished. So if you run a lot of
commands in quick succession you can run out of ports on the server.

If you're using Perl, Ruby or Python, you could build your script on
the scripting api's. They will allow you to use a single connection
for any number of commands. For details, see:
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.081/manuals/p4script/p4script.pdf

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Frank Compagner                                  Guerrilla Games


bk> Hi
bk> i have a script that gets run at the end of the day to
bk> recursively check through all the changes that was submitted
bk> during the day, to see if the files that are part of the
bk> changelist follow a certain format. Whenever the changelist has a
bk> lot of files say 50,000 + i get WSAEADDRINUSE error.
bk> Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
bk> TCP connect to perforceserver:1666 failed.
bk> connect: perforceserver:1666: WSAEADDRINUSE
bk> At the time of the error, only the script is trying to access
bk> perforce, I was wondering if there is way to find out the
bk> offending program or operation that is trying the use that port
bk> that perforce script is trying to use.

bk> Thanks
bk> Bala






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