On 21.05.2018 20:54, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > > > On 21/05/18 19:35, ub@xdv wrote: >> hello, >> >> On 20.05.2018 06:50, Liam Goodacre wrote: >>> In 0.48.1 on Ubuntu, I'm getting a horrible scenario where PD refuses to >>> open patches or create any more abstractions for me. I get an error >>> message saying "too many open files". Granted I have a lot open, but >>> this is a serious problem as it means I can't access all of my old >>> performances. They worked fine in 0.47. >>> >>> Any ideas? >> this is not really a problem with pd > > I disagree. The most common cause of "too many open files" is a bug in > closing files properly, possible. never occured to me. is it in the issue tracker?
> because 1024 simultaneously-open files should be > enough for most use cases.definitely, but when someone says "Granted I have a > lot open", that could be an understatement. or a regression of some sort. > > > Claude > >> , but with your shell- or system >> configuration limiting the number of open file descriptors. >> >> check your current shell-limit with >> ulimit -Sn >> -S is for soft limit (you can lower, but not raise, the hard limit). >> raise the limit in your shell with >> ulimit -n 65536 >> start pd from that shell and see if the situation improves. >> >> if that doesn't help, you can check the kernel limits with >> cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr >> which returns 3 numbers, the first of which is the number of open files, >> the last of which is the limit. >> >> increase the value of "nofile" in /etc/security/limits.conf >> do >> sudo sysctl -p >> >> additional steps are required to make these settings permanent, the >> ulimit -n 65536 would have to go into your .bashrc so it's executed at >> system startup. if you normally start pd from your GUI you'd have to >> restart your system (actually just xorg) so your master shell knows >> about the new value. there's other ways, one of which would be to start >> pd from a wrapper script, or probably gnome provides that sort of >> environmental setup for it's program shortcuts. >> >> there's more information >> - >> https://askubuntu.com/questions/162229/how-do-i-increase-the-open-files-limit-for-a-non-root-user >> >> - >> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29577/ulimit-difference-between-hard-and-soft-limits >> >> >> hope that helps ... cheers, >> ub >> >>> Liam >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list