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>

> Seems that my first post has been truncated ...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> 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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