pesky "too many open files" issue (again) in Version 1.5.11 (25801)

[chris k]

Hi All,

Seems I found another .torrent which results in too many open files. This one uses 2 Gb Blocks/Pieces, and has a whole bunch-o-small files in one of the offending pieces - Causing uTorrent to halt with the dreaded "too many open files' error.

You only need 1 peer for this one. Don't even need hundreds of peers or files open.. just a few peers and this one piece to be open for read/write, and uTorrent runs out of handles.

The torrent is (the newly released) XPlane 10 Demo. It is a freely distributable and sanctioned torrent by the developer of the software. (www.x-plane.com)

Find the .torrent file here:

http://www.x-plane.com/files/X-Plane_10_Demo.torrent

Note: It's a Legitimate .Torrent, so feel free to download this one for your debugging purposes. The entire torrent works, except for 1 piece, which, when uTorrent Mac tries to open the files it covers (to write out the data), it runs out of file descriptors.

Cheers. Looking forward to a new version which ups the # of file descriptors/handles allowed to be open by the app.

- CK.

[Slipknot]

Confirmed. uTorrent will not work with the X-Planes Demo torrent and fails with the message "Error: Too many files open." It fails this way using both 10.7.2 and 10.6.8. The torrent fails between 90% and 99% completion. Too buggy for prime time. I'm abandoning the app as there are too many good BT clients for Mac to waste any more time with this turkey. Good luck. Bye

[DreadWingKnight]

And how many files are in the torrent?

[chris k]

21,788 Files

Yep - it's a big one.

- CK.

[DreadWingKnight]

-.-;