Too many open files

[Tim Müller]

On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 21:37 +0200, Engin Firat wrote:

Hi,

> Related with this post: 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2015-March/052066.html
> 
> 
> As time passes, system crashes by the following error message "Too
> many open files." . 
> It seems, as filesink is closed, underlying file handle is not closing
> by the software. I have tested this scenario by changing the recording
> period of the system. As recording period gets smaller system crash
> time increases. This means that problem is related with total created
> and closed filesink elements. 
> 
> How the problem can be solved? 

I would recommend you make a small test program that reproduces the
issue. Then you file a bug in bugzilla, see
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bugs/ , and attach your test case
there. Then we can go and check if it's still an issue and fix it if so.

Cheers
 -Tim

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Tim Müller, Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com