This may or may not be related or useful, but: I got this 'too many files open' error a while ago in a patch with many readsf~ (without 'any') objects.
I did this:
edit /etc/security/limits.conf and add : [username] soft nofile 4096 [username] hard nofile 4096
(see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=638597 )
or some variation of it...
It seemed to help a bit, but still it happened now and then. The problem went away when I transfered the patch to a computer with more ram. But it is strange that playing a few sound files would require so much memory. I'm not sure if it's related at all to readsf~ or readanysf~. I got this error when using pix_image a few times too...
gr, Tim
2010/6/22 august august@alien.mur.at
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Hi everyone,
Sorry to interfere but I'm experiencing similar issues and cleaning up the headers doesn't seem to solve the problem ...
From user's point of view (no dev skills in here !), it seems that pd
gets overloaded by too many file's openings.
On my system (osx 10.6, Pd-Ext 0.42.5-RC2, hcs' readanysf intel binary), and no matter the format and the size of the files, 240 successive openings lead to:
"Invalid file or unsupported codec. Current file is either invalid or an unsupported codec"
Then Pd refuses to save and reports :
"error: /Users/me/Documents/PD/stress.pd: Too many open files"
I join a simple "stress patch" that tries to isolate the error.
Thanks for helping a bit more !
Cheers,
Pierre
Pierre,
thanks for the report and for the test patch. However, I cannot produce your error. I am using ubuntu, pd 0.42.5 your test patch seems to work like it should here. The "Too many open files" error is also not from readanysf~ can you explain a little further? Are you hearing noise like Derek reported? best -august.
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