[rrd-developers] Re: too many open files error

[Tobias Oetiker]

Jul 23 Ashok Mandala wrote:

 |
 | Hi All,
 |
 | I have started using the API calls to librrd in my program (Thanks for
 | helping out :-) ) - but have started getting the "too many open files"
 | error message from rrd_get_error()  after around 1200 rrd files have
 | been created/updated. I am not opening any files or sockets in my
 | program, so the rrd functions should be the only ones using the file
 | descriptors. Also, the application is not multi-threaded , so there is
 | only one call to rrd_xxx functions at any point - I expect that after
 | each return from the rrd_update() or rrd_create() calls the file
 | descriptor count would have been unchanged if the files had been
 | properly closed. Then, why is this error occuring ? Has anyone
 | encountered the same problem before ?

there is a bug in rrdtool where you loos filedescriptor every time
you try to open a file which does not exist ... will be fixed in
the next release



cheers
tobi
 |
 | Thanks.
 | Ashok.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 | --
 | Unsubscribe mailto:rrd-developers-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe
 | Help        mailto:rrd-developers-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=help
 | Archive     http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers
 | WebAdmin    http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
 |
 |

-- 
 ______    __   _
/_  __/_  / /  (_) Oetiker, ETZ J97, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
 / // _ \/ _ \/ / phoneto:+41(0)1-632-5286  faxto:+41(0)1-632-1517
/_/ \.__/_.__/_/ mailto:oetiker at ee.ethz.ch http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker


--
Unsubscribe mailto:rrd-developers-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=unsubscribe
Help        mailto:rrd-developers-request at list.ee.ethz.ch?subject=help
Archive     http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers
WebAdmin    http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi