Sketch builds cause too many open files

[mikaelpatel]

Very often the Arduino IDE needs to be restarted due to too many open files. This can occur as a Java crash or as a failed to execute command.

I am running nightly build with the new avr toolchain (though the problem also shows up in 1.5.6-r2) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32-bit).

Cheers!

[matthijskooijman]

Hmm, I don't really understand what you're saying here. Does the IDE crash when you open a lot of files, or is there some bug that is triggered by having a lot of files open when the IDE crashes?

[mikaelpatel]

I was a bit unclear. Sorry about that. It is the build that seems to leave open files so that a max limit is met. It is not the number of files open in the IDE (tabs). Below is an example.

[mikaelpatel]

A more complete error message:

[mikaelpatel]

I looked at the compiler reference you attached for #1991
I believe that the File's are not correctly closed.

[cmaglie]

@mikaelpatel

May you try:

sudo lsof -p PID

where PID is the process id of the IDE, to see which files are kept open?

[DiDomenicoSimone]

Hi ,
I'm so sorry, I accidentally created a fork of the repository, I can delete
it without problems?

2014-05-27 13:47 GMT+02:00 Cristian Maglie [email protected]:

@mikaelpatel https://github.com/mikaelpatel

May you try:

sudo lsof -p PID

where PID is the process id of the IDE, to see which files are kept open?

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[matthijskooijman]

I'm so sorry, I accidentally created a fork of the repository, I can delete it without problems?

This is totally the wrong place to ask, but yes, you can delete the fork from your account without affecting the original repository in any way.

[mikaelpatel]

@cmaglie

I haven't seen this problem for several weeks. More or less since I switched over to the nightly build with the new avr toolchain. Also the Java Runtime (Ubuntu 12.10 LTS/32-bits) was recently updated.

I will close the issue and reopen if it shows up again.

Cheers!