You can avoidd this by consolidating all your resource files into one big archive file that is expanded in-memory into NSData files. I still vaguely remember a library that parses tar file into a dictionary of NSData objects. You can use that library to consolidate all your resources into one single tarball.
On Apr 9, 2014, at 11:26, Greg Parker <gpar...@apple.com> wrote: > On Apr 8, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Michael Domino > <michael.dom...@identityfinder.com> wrote: >> Some of my customers running on Mavericks are having problems with "too many >> open files" errors. Raising the limit does solve the problem, but I've >> noticed that on 10.6, at idle, my app opens about 47 files, none of them gui >> graphics files. On Mavericks, the very same build of the app opens 102 files >> and keeps them open for the duration of the process existence. > > Dumb solution: raise the open file limit. > > The default limit for an application double-clicked in the Finder is 256 > descriptors. You can raise it by calling setrlimit() with the RLIMIT_NOFILE > option. Setting it to something like 512 or 1024 during your app's launch > should help your customers out while you figure out if there is excessive > descriptor use in your app or in the OS. > > If your customers start hitting the higher limit then you know you have a > more serious problem to resolve. There is a system-wide limit (around 20K > IIRC) so you can't just raise it forever. > > > -- > Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/xcvista%40me.com > > This email sent to xcvi...@me.com
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