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Re: "OPENW: Error opening file. Unit: (...) Too many links" - What does this mean? (Possible I/O problem) [message #85130 is a reply to message #85113]

Tue, 09 July 2013 03:27

Carsten Lechte
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Registered: August 2006

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On 05/07/13 19:00, Jas wrote:
> files was about 90,000. However, I've recently increased the loops involved
> so that I create many more (~ 500,000 in all).
...
> % OPENW: Error opening file. Unit: (...) File: (...) Too many links %
> Execution halted at: $MAIN$ (...)

That looks like the underlying file system complaining that the maximum number
of files in a directory has been reached. Depending on which filesystem on
which operating system you use, it may be possible to increase this limit.
However, it might be better to reconsider generating so many files in the
first place. If you really need so many seperate files, you could group them
into 500 directories with about 1000 files each.

chl

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		"OPENW: Error opening file. Unit: (...) Too many links" - What does this mean? (Possible I/O problem) By: Jasdeep Anand on Fri, 05 July 2013 10:00
		Re: "OPENW: Error opening file. Unit: (...) Too many links" - What does this mean? (Possible I/O problem) By: skymaxwell@gmail.com on Sun, 07 July 2013 04:33
		Re: "OPENW: Error opening file. Unit: (...) Too many links" - What does this mean? (Possible I/O problem) By: Carsten Lechte on Tue, 09 July 2013 03:27

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