Seeing it on AWS's Linux Image, ulimit -n is 1024. I get the feeling 
something must not be cleaning up after itself if there are 1024 open files 
after a given period of time. I'll bump up the limit in the mean time.

Cheers,
Dan

On Friday, October 12, 2012 12:21:41 AM UTC+11, Fadrizul H wrote:
>
> Increase yer ulimit
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------
> From: Daniel Friedman
> Sent: 11/10/2012 6:17 PM
> To: [email protected] <javascript:>
> Subject: [nodejs] EMFILE on process.memoryUsage()
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm getting Error: EMFILE, too many open files on calling 
> process.memoryUsage(). 
>
> I see there was an issue that was fixed in v0.6.14, however I'm on v0.8.8 
> and still seeing it.
>
> There is a test for the bug in test/simple/test-memory-usage-emfile.js 
> which opens up 255 files and then tries to call process.memoryUsage() which 
> seems to pass. However, when I bump the number of files to say 1024 it 
> fails. Excerpt from the test:
>
> while (files.length < 256)
>>   files.push(fs.openSync(__filename, 'r'));
>> var r = process.memoryUsage();
>
>
> I was wondering what the significance of the 256 is? Unless I'm missing 
> something, or doing something wrong, it seems like there might still be an 
> issue.
>
> Side note, winston (logging library) uses this call when trying to handle 
> exceptions, causing it to fail and node to exit. So I'd be careful if 
> you're relying on that feature of the library.
>
> Dan
>
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