are you sure the new system's OS has a large enough "open files" parameter?
on linux this could be modified by the parameters /proc/sys/fs/file-max /proc/sys/fs/inode-max it am sure it is different on bsd, solaris etc.. John Michael wrote: > Hi > I use the perl sub below to create thumbs with image magick on my mod perl server and > never really had any problems with it. I put it on another server and after > a short while it froze up the server with this error. > too many files open. -- ___cliff [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.genwax.com/