From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-24T21:13:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19479] Re: Ruby 1.8.7 Throwing "Too many open files" Exception lately???

2008/10/24 C.E. Thornton <admin@hawthorne-press.com>:
> I have a Ruby Utility that have have been using
> a long time that scans my main directory and reports
> the size of each directory.  It has worked for two years
> and now all of a sudden there has been a change in
> 1.8.7 that causes a "too many open files" exception.
>
> This change may have been introduced in the last couple
> of months.
>
> I ran the same program with 1.9.0 and it DOES NOT
> exhibit the problem.

Sounds like an environmental (ulimit) or compile issue.  Did you rule those out?

Kind regards

robert

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