Docpad: Regeneration fails with no apparent reason

Question

When I run docpad run, there are times after I write changes to disk, and the process tries to regenerate it fails to do so. It's not a matter of it taking a long time, it just fails to regenerate, even on subsequent writes. I have to interrupt the process (i.e. ctrl+d in the console) and restart the process all over again.

My env:

• Linux Mint Debian 64-bit
• node@0.8.17
• npm@1.2.2
• docpad@6.21.7
• docpad-plugins:
  • jade@2.2.0
  • livereload@2.2.0
  • robotskirt@2.0.1
  • stylus@2.2.0

Has anyone encountered this behavior before?

Answer 1

As a precaution try running ulimit -n 4096 in your console.

This has solved a number of miscellaneous failures in my docpad instance.