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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: Dominique on October 16, 2005, 09:22:53 PM

Title: error 24 : too much open files
Post by: Dominique on October 16, 2005, 09:22:53 PM

I get the following

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info: Could not create backup of 'path/to/152.part.met' (error 24 : too much open files)and

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impossible d'ouvrir le fichier de configuration utilisateur
cannot open the user's configuration file
What can i do? Remove some files of the download list or change some options in the preferences?

Title: and error 2
Post by: Dominique on October 16, 2005, 09:26:55 PM

I get another error:

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info : Could not create backup of '/path/to/264.part.met' (error 2 : no file or directory of this type)

Title: Re: error 24 : too much open files
Post by: stefanero on October 17, 2005, 08:33:49 AM

there are system limits on how much files at once you can possibly open,
and if you really have 264 downloads or even more, it could be you reached that limit...

so stop some, and finish a couple, then restart teh rest...

to figure out how much is the limit, try google or your distri forum ;)

Title: Re: error 24 : too much open files
Post by: Dominique on October 17, 2005, 09:53:39 PM

I have left for download only the files for which i have allready some parts, that is 97 files. All the others are stopped. But the problem remain the same.

Have a file only one download, or can a file have many downloads and many parts on the harddisk?

The good thing is at amule seam to work. Is it a risk to have corrupted files?

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Title: Re: error 24 : too much open files
Post by: ken on October 17, 2005, 11:24:22 PM

Well, there may be several files associated with each download: the xxx.part file, which contains the partially downloaded file's data; the xxx.part.met file, which keeps track of information about the file being downloaded, the xxx.part.met.bak, which is the backup of xxx.part.met; xxx.part.met.seeds, which keeps a few sources for rare downloads between aMule sessions.

However, only the xxx.part files are kept open all the time.  The other files are only open momentarily when they are read or written.

Remember, though, that open sockets (network connections) also count against your limit of open files.  So, if the number of xxx.part files plus the number of connections approaches the limit, then you will start to have problems.