[etherlab-users] dlsd: Too many open files

[Florian Pose]

Hello,

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:22:47PM +0200, Andy Rohr wrote:
> I'm using dlsd to log measurements. This works fine with a small amount of 
> channels. But I want to record 180 channels of data. As soon as I configure 
> configure this many channels, I get into trouble with the dlsd_logger:
>
> May  4 14:03:02 mindclue-andy-linux dlsd_logger[9475]: ERROR: Processing 
> data: Logger: GenSaver: Could not write to global index file 
> "/media/sda8/data/dls_data/job107/channel111/chunk1241438543765428/level1/data_mean.idx": 
> Could not create file 
> "/media/sda8/data/dls_data/job107/channel111/chunk1241438543765428/level1/data_mean.idx" 
> for appending: Too many open files

The dlsd has a '-n' option for that. See 'dlsd -h' or the documentation.
Usually it's just adding '-n 4096' or something to the sysconfig file.

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

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