J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:51:50AM +0200, Omry Yadan wrote: > >> I have an application that open many files for writing very fast, in a >> way - it can almost be looked as a file system stress test. >> >> >> my application is single threaded, and I noticed the following problem >> when running a single instance of it: >> >> >> at some point, after opening (and closing) many files for writing, the >> application fails to open a file for writing. >> > > Do you know what error exactly the open is failing with? > As I wrote in a separate message to the list: the error string is "Input Output error". I can get the exact errno if you like, but it's probably a generic IO error code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html