Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 00:07:31 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 316 ************************************************** Tuesday 04 May 2004 Number 316 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Starting Over : Patrick Ash " 2 Re: Starting Over : Dave Yeo" 3 Re: Starting Over : John Poltorak 4 Re: Starting Over : Dave Yeo" 5 Re: Starting Over : James Moe **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:09:33 +0000 From: "Patrick Ash " Subject: Re: Starting Over I am running Warp 4 with fp 15. AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 512 mb , LSI Logic U160 scsi controller and 2 Maxtor Atlas 18.3 gb U160 hard drives. ux2bs has the second drive to itself. On Mon, 3 May 2004 14:39:59 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: >On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:23:33AM +0000, Patrick Ash wrote: >> Unfortunately, the script failed about half way through with the "too >> many files open" message, even though I have emxopt set to 4096 >> files. I will try again to see if it will go all the way through. > >A number of people have also found this problem. Can you say which version >of OS/2 you have and what sort of hardware you have? I can't help thinking >that it is a memory constraint of some sort. -- Patrick Ash patash at comcast.net There are only 10 kinds of people in the world -- Those who understand binary and those who don't. This OS/2 system uptime is 8 days, 21:13 hours and 55 seconds _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 07:44:12 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: Starting Over On Mon, 3 May 2004 14:39:59 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > >I wonder if anyone knows of a utility which will display all the open >files so that we can get an idea of what actually constitutes 'too many'. Doesn't Theseus? System --> General System --> Open Files. Scroll to the bottom. Here I currently have 800 files open. Dave _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:51:59 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Starting Over On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:44:12AM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: > On Mon, 3 May 2004 14:39:59 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > > > > >I wonder if anyone knows of a utility which will display all the open > >files so that we can get an idea of what actually constitutes 'too many'. > > Doesn't Theseus? System --> General System --> Open Files. Scroll to the bottom. Here I currently have 800 files open. Does it include a command line utility which will output a list of open files to stdout? > Dave -- John _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:44:56 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: Starting Over On Mon, 3 May 2004 15:51:59 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: >On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:44:12AM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: >> On Mon, 3 May 2004 14:39:59 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: >> >> > >> >I wonder if anyone knows of a utility which will display all the open >> >files so that we can get an idea of what actually constitutes 'too many'. >> >> Doesn't Theseus? System --> General System --> Open Files. Scroll to the bottom. Here I currently have 800 files open. > >Does it include a command line utility which will output a list of open >files to stdout? > Doesn't seem to. You might be able to write a Rexx script to get it from theseus.dll though the INF file doesn't say. Dave _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 09:46:34 -0700 From: James Moe Subject: Re: Starting Over Patrick Ash wrote: > > Unfortunately, the script failed about half way through with the "too > many files open" message, even though I have emxopt set to 4096 > files. I will try again to see if it will go all the way through. > It is because the shell scripts are being run concurrently rather than serially. No one has yet offered a reason why some systems spawn the shells and others do not. I do not know what changed on my system that has caused this. wseb v4.5 fp3 kernel v14.098_uni scsi lsi lsiu160 scsi buslogic flashpoint bt950lw 512 MB RAM -- jimoe at sohnen-moe dot com _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs