Hello! This same issue recently came up with the helpdesk.
There is no internal limit, so this is likely a system-specific resource issue. However, we would very much like to understand the issue, and try to reproduce it, if we can. When does it fail? Does it happen when creating or accessing data? There might be something we can suggest to alleviate the problem if we understand the issue. For example, if the failure happens when reading, then it might help to not open all files at once (or something like that). If you have example code that we can use to reproduce the issue, that would be very helpful, as well. Thanks! -Barbara Jones HDF Helpdesk [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Hdf-forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Bridwell Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Hdf-forum] External file limit when generating links to non HDF5 files Is there a known limit of external files, non HDF5 files when creating an HDF5 data set. The call being used is H5Pset_external. Running on Linux cluster Rhel5, HDF5 5.1-8.10. The limit is a "unusual number" 2730. _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.lists.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_lists.hdfgroup.org
