Too many open files

ucbones

Hi,

I have a site that was working fine a while ago, but has started tripping up. At the top of each script, there is a loop which includes all my function definitions, which are contained in 29 separate files. It uses include_once(), and every reference I've found to the too many open files refers to the function fopen(). Any ideas how I can rectify this error?

Cheers,

Dom

vaaaska

"...tripping up..." means?

Post some error messages, a better explanation of the problem and/or some source code and perhaps we can get at the root of things.

😉

ucbones

The errors take the following form:

Warning: main(../includes/functions/calculate.php): failed to open stream: Too many open files in /home/kicklond/includes/tasks/top.php on line 25

Line 25 is the include line of the following code:

$folders=array(
				$tmp["ab"]."includes/functions/",
				$tmp["ab"]."includes/config/",
				$tmp["ab"]."includes/classes/",
				$tmp["ab"]."includes/classes/modules/",
				$tmp["ab"]."includes/classes/modules/subclasses/"
				);
//include them
for ($i=0;$i<count($folders);$i++){
	if ($handle = opendir($folders[$i])) {
		while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
			if (($file == ".") || ($file == "..")){
				continue;
			}
			$fileext=explode(".",$file);
			include_once $folders[$i].$file;
			}

	}
	closedir($handle); 
}
}

I know that the explode is a little dodgy- it won't like files which are foo.bar.php, but it works for me!

Cheers,

Dom

vaaaska

Ah, that's much better, however I don't have an exact answer for you.

How many files does all of that actually open?

I do remember somewhere in the past (search Google for php too many files open) that it was some kind of a bug. I'm not so sure that's your problem but...

Perhaps turn on your error checking and if it's not a large amount of files do things a little manually and see if you can isolate the problem more specifically...

ucbones

The code actually only opens 26 files- I replaced it with 26 manual includes and got the same error. I googled for "too many open files" and found loads of stuff on fopen but nothing on include.

Cheers for the help,

Dom