Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune loading large playlist

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for the details.

I quickly tried with ulimit -n 200 without any problem but I'll recheck
everything when I have more time.

What I don't understand is that when the playlist is shown, lsof on
Cynthiune doesn't list any media file opened, which should mean that the
file handles are correctly closed ?

Thanks,
Philippe

Le 02/06/2012 15:42, Sebastian Reitenbach a écrit :
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> On Saturday, June 2, 2012 15:01 CEST, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> 
> wrote: 
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>> Hi,
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>> Le 02/06/2012 11:20, Sebastian Reitenbach a écrit :
>>> Hi,
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>>> when having a large playlist in Cynthiune, then weird things happen for me. 
>>> It seems, there are too many
>>> file descriptors open. It seems, Cynthiune checks all files in the 
>>> playlist, and keeps an open file descriptor for it.
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>> How many files, and what kind of files, are we talking about ?
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>> I just created a playlist with 1007 items and while it is quite slow to
>> start Cynthiune, things seem to work.
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> On OpenBSD, /etc/login.conf defines resource limits. There I have:
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> openfiles-cur=128
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> 128 is generally fine, even Firefox and other beasts work fine with that 
> limit.
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> I think you can try to reproduce the problem on Linux when you lower the open 
> files using 
> ulimit -n 1000
> maybe for your case, or something lower.
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> On a linux box where I have access, the open files limit is set to 1024, 
> maybe for you too, and 
> you just missed it by a small number of songs in your playlist?
> 
> How I did it: in the Add music files dialog, I just had my home directory 
> open, and I definitely 
> have more than 128 audio files in there, which Cynthiune could pick up. 
> Mostly mp3, but also FLAC,
> Ogg, and some others.
> When I clicked there the OK button, It already started to behave weirdo, then 
> I tried to restart Cynthiune 
> on the console, and saw the console output. I deleted the playlist, to be 
> able to start Cynthiune again.
> 
> Sebastian
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