Emmett,
Contrary to what Zed's message seems to imply, there is nothing
inherently wrong with codling like:
a = FIle.open("blah.txt")
a.write("hi!")
a.close()
You simply need to understand that if any error occurs during
a.write(...) or a similar call then a.close will not be invoked. If
you use error handling like
a = FIle.open("blah.txt")
begin
a.write("hi!")
ensure
a.close()
end
then you will ensure that the file is actually closed regardless of an
exception. Of course a block like that is kind of ugly, so it's better
to do what Zed suggested and actually associate a code block with the
open call. This means that even if the block faults the file is
closed; it's just a cleaner syntax.
Here are some links that kind of explains it too:
http://www.meshplex.org/wiki/Ruby/File_handling_Input_Output
http://www.math.hokudai.ac.jp/~gotoken/ruby/ruby-uguide/uguide25.html
-- Brian
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Zed A. Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008 13:07:27 -0700
> "Emmett Shear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I just switched to Mongrel, and it's been working much better than my
>> previous lighttpd/fastcgi setup. So thanks for the awesomeness.
>>
>> My current problem: once or twice an hour, I get following error in
>> production
>>
>> Mongrel timed out this thread: too many open files
>>
>> I never get it in testing or on our staging server. Any ideas what would
>> cause that? It doesn't *appear* particularly correlated with load to me, but
>> I'm only receiving notifications after the fact so I can't be sure.
>
> A couple things cause this. One is that the mongrel is overloaded with
> too many connections so it can't accept any more.
>
> If there's isn't that much load on the server, then it's more likely
> that you are leaking an open file here or there. If you are doing code
> like this:
>
> a = open("blah.txt")
> a.write("hi")
> a.close()
>
> Then you are probably leaking files. Look for that, and then translate
> to the block form:
>
> open("blah.txt") {|a| a.write("hi") }
>
> That's probably the #1 mistake people make from other languages.
>
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