* SOLVED: too many open files
@ 2013-08-15 15:48 Henning Hraban Ramm
2013-08-15 16:09 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Henning Hraban Ramm @ 2013-08-15 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi again,
in my current songbook project I use t-filter with LilyPond as shown in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond with latest beta MkIV on OSX.
Every line (system) of notes is included as its own PDF to leave the page breaking to ConTeXt. But since I have some hundred songs with each a few lines, it sums up...
I guess ConTeXt keeps every externalfigure open, since I get this error:
pages > flushing realpage 70, userpage 70
(c_helpmesee.tex
structure > sectioning > TitelKlein @ level 2 : 0.83 -> Help Me See
GNU LilyPond 2.16.2
ERROR: In procedure open-file:
ERROR: Too many open files: "/Applications/music/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/r4rs.scm"
LILYPOND > name='lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee.pdf'
LILYPOND > including system no.1
LILYPOND > including system no.2
LILYPOND > including system no.3
LILYPOND > including system no.4
LILYPOND > including system no.5
) (c_hochaufdem.tex </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-1.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-2.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-3.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdfI/O Error: Couldn't open file '/Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdf': Too many open files.
!LuaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
It works with songbook excerpts (some 30 songs). I don't understand if the error is really from LilyPond or from LuaTeX (I guess the former), and how I would be able to increase the number of possible files (in bash on OSX 10.8.4). So probably it's more a general Unix question than a ConTeXt one, but anyway...
ANALYSIS:
$ ulimit -n
256
$ sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 12288
$ sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240
SOLUTION:
$ ulimit -S -n 2048
(Properly describing a problem often helps to solve it. I send this for the records, in case someone runs into the same.)
Greetlings, Hraban
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: SOLVED: too many open files
2013-08-15 15:48 SOLVED: too many open files Henning Hraban Ramm
@ 2013-08-15 16:09 ` Hans Hagen
2013-08-15 16:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-06-19 19:47 ` Mojca Miklavec
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2013-08-15 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
On 8/15/2013 5:48 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> in my current songbook project I use t-filter with LilyPond as shown in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond with latest beta MkIV on OSX.
>
> Every line (system) of notes is included as its own PDF to leave the page breaking to ConTeXt. But since I have some hundred songs with each a few lines, it sums up...
>
> I guess ConTeXt keeps every externalfigure open, since I get this error:
>
> pages > flushing realpage 70, userpage 70
> (c_helpmesee.tex
> structure > sectioning > TitelKlein @ level 2 : 0.83 -> Help Me See
> GNU LilyPond 2.16.2
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> ERROR: Too many open files: "/Applications/music/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/r4rs.scm"
> LILYPOND > name='lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee.pdf'
> LILYPOND > including system no.1
> LILYPOND > including system no.2
> LILYPOND > including system no.3
> LILYPOND > including system no.4
> LILYPOND > including system no.5
> ) (c_hochaufdem.tex </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-1.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-2.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-3.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdfI/O Error: Couldn't open file '/Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdf': Too many open files.
>
> !LuaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed
> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
>
> It works with songbook excerpts (some 30 songs). I don't understand if the error is really from LilyPond or from LuaTeX (I guess the former), and how I would be able to increase the number of possible files (in bash on OSX 10.8.4). So probably it's more a general Unix question than a ConTeXt one, but anyway...
>
> ANALYSIS:
> $ ulimit -n
> 256
> $ sysctl kern.maxfiles
> kern.maxfiles: 12288
> $ sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240
>
> SOLUTION:
> $ ulimit -S -n 2048
>
> (Properly describing a problem often helps to solve it. I send this for the records, in case someone runs into the same.)
afaik the limit for simultaneous open pdf files in luatex is 2K so it's
indeed your operating system
Hans
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: SOLVED: too many open files
2013-08-15 15:48 SOLVED: too many open files Henning Hraban Ramm
2013-08-15 16:09 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2013-08-15 16:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-08-17 15:13 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2016-06-19 19:47 ` Mojca Miklavec
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2013-08-15 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> in my current songbook project I use t-filter with LilyPond as shown in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond with latest beta MkIV on OSX.
OT: The thriddata.parselilypondfile(..) function is convoluted. Instead of
for ts in io.lines(scname) do
syco = ts*1
end
you should use
syco = tonumber(io.loaddata(scname)) or 0
Aditya
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: SOLVED: too many open files
2013-08-15 15:48 SOLVED: too many open files Henning Hraban Ramm
2013-08-15 16:09 ` Hans Hagen
2013-08-15 16:23 ` Aditya Mahajan
@ 2016-06-19 19:47 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-06-19 21:49 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Mojca Miklavec @ 2016-06-19 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
I found an old thread while fighting with the problem of
luatex I/O Error: Couldn't open file 'foo.pdf': Too many open files.
On 15 August 2013 at 17:48, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> in my current songbook project I use t-filter with LilyPond as shown in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond with latest beta MkIV on OSX.
>
> Every line (system) of notes is included as its own PDF to leave the page breaking to ConTeXt. But since I have some hundred songs with each a few lines, it sums up...
>
> I guess ConTeXt keeps every externalfigure open, since I get this error:
>
> pages > flushing realpage 70, userpage 70
> (c_helpmesee.tex
> structure > sectioning > TitelKlein @ level 2 : 0.83 -> Help Me See
> GNU LilyPond 2.16.2
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> ERROR: Too many open files: "/Applications/music/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/r4rs.scm"
> LILYPOND > name='lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee.pdf'
> LILYPOND > including system no.1
> LILYPOND > including system no.2
> LILYPOND > including system no.3
> LILYPOND > including system no.4
> LILYPOND > including system no.5
> ) (c_hochaufdem.tex </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-1.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-2.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-3.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdfI/O Error: Couldn't open file '/Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdf': Too many open files.
>
> !LuaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed
> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
>
> It works with songbook excerpts (some 30 songs). I don't understand if the error is really from LilyPond or from LuaTeX (I guess the former), and how I would be able to increase the number of possible files (in bash on OSX 10.8.4). So probably it's more a general Unix question than a ConTeXt one, but anyway...
>
> ANALYSIS:
> $ ulimit -n
> 256
> $ sysctl kern.maxfiles
> kern.maxfiles: 12288
> $ sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
> kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240
>
> SOLUTION:
> $ ulimit -S -n 2048
>
> (Properly describing a problem often helps to solve it. I send this for the records, in case someone runs into the same.)
Running "ulimit -S -n 2048" in fact solved the problem for me, but I
wonder if there is any better solution. (I might even have more than
256 files open in my text editor and that one doesn't complain.)
Is it possible to politely ask LuaTeX to close the files after reading them?
(It's fine if that's impossible, I can still use Hraban's workaround.)
Thank you,
Mojca
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: SOLVED: too many open files
2016-06-19 19:47 ` Mojca Miklavec
@ 2016-06-19 21:49 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2016-06-19 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
On 6/19/2016 9:47 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found an old thread while fighting with the problem of
> luatex I/O Error: Couldn't open file 'foo.pdf': Too many open files.
>
> On 15 August 2013 at 17:48, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> in my current songbook project I use t-filter with LilyPond as shown in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond with latest beta MkIV on OSX.
>>
>> Every line (system) of notes is included as its own PDF to leave the page breaking to ConTeXt. But since I have some hundred songs with each a few lines, it sums up...
>>
>> I guess ConTeXt keeps every externalfigure open, since I get this error:
>>
>> pages > flushing realpage 70, userpage 70
>> (c_helpmesee.tex
>> structure > sectioning > TitelKlein @ level 2 : 0.83 -> Help Me See
>> GNU LilyPond 2.16.2
>> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
>> ERROR: Too many open files: "/Applications/music/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/../share/guile/1.8/ice-9/r4rs.scm"
>> LILYPOND > name='lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee.pdf'
>> LILYPOND > including system no.1
>> LILYPOND > including system no.2
>> LILYPOND > including system no.3
>> LILYPOND > including system no.4
>> LILYPOND > including system no.5
>> ) (c_hochaufdem.tex </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-1.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-2.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-3.pdf> </Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdfI/O Error: Couldn't open file '/Users/hraban/workspace/liederheft/lilytemp/prd_alle-temp-lilypond-c_helpmesee-4.pdf': Too many open files.
>>
>> !LuaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed
>> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>>
>>
>> It works with songbook excerpts (some 30 songs). I don't understand if the error is really from LilyPond or from LuaTeX (I guess the former), and how I would be able to increase the number of possible files (in bash on OSX 10.8.4). So probably it's more a general Unix question than a ConTeXt one, but anyway...
>>
>> ANALYSIS:
>> $ ulimit -n
>> 256
>> $ sysctl kern.maxfiles
>> kern.maxfiles: 12288
>> $ sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
>> kern.maxfilesperproc: 10240
>>
>> SOLUTION:
>> $ ulimit -S -n 2048
>>
>> (Properly describing a problem often helps to solve it. I send this for the records, in case someone runs into the same.)
>
> Running "ulimit -S -n 2048" in fact solved the problem for me, but I
> wonder if there is any better solution. (I might even have more than
> 256 files open in my text editor and that one doesn't complain.)
>
> Is it possible to politely ask LuaTeX to close the files after reading them?
maybe object=no helps
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