On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Le Fou Volant <alexaguilla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I finally got around to installing Sage on another machine I work on. > This machine runs Linux Centos. The problem I had with my Mac is > quantitatively different, but qualitatively the same: > I can open 240 files in a for loop and get 1 variable > from netcdf files (thanks to scipy.io.netcdf). I could > not do that on the Mac (it crashed after opening ~120 files). > I cannot however read the 6 variables I need within one loop. > If I make one for loop for each variable I can read 3 variable > and it crashes at the 4th. So basically, on Linux the number > of files that can be open is roughly contained between 720 and > 960 files. > > I followed your suggestion of your last e-mail and googled > "Too many open files Os x". The results point more or less > towards increasing some internal limit, often times with "ulimit". > > My thinking is that one shouldn't have to increase any internal > limit when one opens and closes a file within the same loop, which > is what I have done. It seems to me that the scipy.io.netcdf > methods are not working properly, especially the close() method. > > I know this isn't a Sage problem per say, but it does hinder > the progress of Sage within the circle of colleagues that work > on weather and climate. Until I find a solution to this problem, > I am stuck with Mathematica for my analysis of climate data.
Can you make the specific data somehow available to us so we can try to replicate this problem and find a workaround? Thanks!! -- William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
