Re: [GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-29 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Yann Chemin yche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Linux: Ubuntu 13.04 ulimit: open files (-n) 1024 from : http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/317369/setting-limits-ulimit -n The maximum number of open file descriptors (most systems

Re: [GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-29 Thread Newcomb, Doug
See here ( entry and comments) http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-nginx-too-many-open-files/ It's a 3 step process on Ubuntu. 1) Check the settings for fs.file-max in /etc/sysctl.conf 2)Edit /etc/security/limits.conf and bump up the file limit for the userid that you run GRASS under. I

Re: [GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-28 Thread Glynn Clements
Yann Chemin wrote: Opening 127 temporary raster files is the limit of GRASS, How can I get above that limit? You need to provide more information: version, OS, any error or debug messages generated. I don't have this problem with 7.0 on Linux. But first, check that it isn't an OS issue.

Re: [GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-28 Thread Yann Chemin
Hi, Linux: Ubuntu 13.04 ulimit: open files (-n) 1024 from : http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/317369/setting-limits-ulimit -n The maximum number of open file descriptors (most systems do not allow this value to be set) indeed: ulimit -n unlimited bash:

Re: [GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-28 Thread Yann Chemin
ah yes i am using G7 trunk On 29 May 2013 08:04, Yann Chemin yche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Linux: Ubuntu 13.04 ulimit: open files (-n) 1024 from : http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/317369/setting-limits-ulimit -n The maximum number of open file descriptors

Re: [GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-28 Thread Glynn Clements
Yann Chemin wrote: Linux: Ubuntu 13.04 ulimit: open files (-n) 1024 In which case, that isn't the problem. What type of filesystem are you using? ext2 has a limit of 32768 subdirectories, increased to 64000 in ext4. I know that btrfs has a rather low limit on the number

[GRASS-dev] rast_open_new() saturates after opening 127 temporary files

2013-05-27 Thread Yann Chemin
Hi, Opening 127 temporary raster files is the limit of GRASS, How can I get above that limit? Cheers, Yann -- ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev