#16 "Too many open files" Error - paperclip

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#16 √ resolved

"Too many open files" Error

Reported by Jon Buda | June 6th, 2008 @ 06:03 PM

Recently while running 'rake paperclip:refresh CLASS=User' on a set of about 300 Users to regenerate the images, Paperclip stopped working with an error of "Too many open files"

Also, while rendering a rails template which displays a large number of thumbnails created by Paperclip using the image_tag(), I received the same error. Is Paperclip for some reason opening the image files but not releasing them?

Especially while rendering a rails template, I would think the URL be built from various path, file, and style names without having to touch the original file.

Comments and changes to this ticket

Jon Yurek June 6th, 2008 @ 09:50 PM
Which version of Paperclip are you using? This is a known issue, but
it has been fixed since v2.1.1.
On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Lighthouse wrote:
Jon Buda June 9th, 2008 @ 01:56 PM
I guess I was using an outdated version, v2.1.2 did the trick. Thanks for the tip. Also great work on Paperclip, its really turning out to be a great plugin.
Jon Yurek June 9th, 2008 @ 02:06 PM
- → State changed from “new” to “resolved”
Glad to hear it worked for you, and thanks.
Oscar Del Ben October 30th, 2008 @ 12:55 PM
I'm now getting this error. I'm using the latest version from github. The file that remains opened is config.s3.yml (s3 credentials)