Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-01 Thread Ravi Malghan
Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within perl. I am opening about 194 files and am seeing some weird behaviour. When i write to the filehandles, I see it writes ok to some files and not to the others. But I donot see any errors either. Just that somefiles donot have what I

Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-01 Thread Owen
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:46:38 -0800 (PST) Ravi Malghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within perl. I am > opening about 194 files and am seeing some weird behaviour. When i write to > the filehandles, I see it writes ok to some files and not t

Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-01 Thread John W. Krahn
Ravi Malghan wrote: > Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within > perl. I am opening about 194 files and am seeing some weird > behaviour. When i write to the filehandles, I see it writes ok > to some files and not to the others. But I donot see any errors > either. Just that

Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-01 Thread Ravi Malghan
Friday, December 1, 2006 10:16:58 PM Subject: Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl Ravi Malghan wrote: > Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within > perl. I am opening about 194 files and am seeing some weird > behaviour. When i write to the filehandles,

Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-02 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 12/1/06, Ravi Malghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within perl. Some systems use ulimit to put an upper limit on the number of open files. And I believe that at least some perl releases have an overall limit of 128 files at once. I am

Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-02 Thread Ravi Malghan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: beginners@perl.org Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2006 10:54:05 AM Subject: Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl On 12/1/06, Ravi Malghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within perl. Some sys

Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-02 Thread Mumia W.
On 12/01/2006 08:46 PM, Ravi Malghan wrote: Hi: is there a limit on number of files that can be open within perl. I am opening about 194 files and am seeing some weird behaviour. When i write to the filehandles, I see it writes ok to some files and not to the others. But I donot see any errors

RE: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-02 Thread Bliss, Kevin
> From: Ravi Malghan >bash-2.05$ ulimit -a >core file size (blocks) unlimited >data seg size (kbytes) unlimited >file size (blocks) unlimited >open files 256 >pipe size (512 bytes) 10 >stack size (kbytes) 8192 >cpu time (seconds) unlimit

Re: Re: Limit of number of files that can be opened in perl

2006-12-02 Thread Jay Savage
Ravi, Please don't top post. On 12/2/06, Ravi Malghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all: thanks for the responses. I should have done this in the beginning. I checked the status open returns. I try to open 388 files, but it returned true(1) only 249 times (for the first 249 opens). So I gues