{"id":4042,"date":"2022-08-21T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-java-error-too-many-open-files-duplicate\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:17:10","slug":"solved-java-error-too-many-open-files-duplicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-java-error-too-many-open-files-duplicate\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Java Error: Too many open files [duplicate]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-13706735\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"13706735\" data-parentid=\"13706409\" data-score=\"5\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>The most likely explanation is that you have a bug in your Java application that is causing it to leak file open files.  The way to avoid the problem is to write your code so that file handles are <em>always<\/em> closed; e.g.<\/p>\n<pre><code>    \/\/ Using the 'try with resource' construct\n    try (Reader r = new FileReader(...)) {\n        \/\/ use the reader\n    } catch (IOException ex) {\n        \/\/ ...\n    }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<pre><code>    \/\/ Using classic try\/catch\/finally\n    Reader r = null;\n    try {\n        r = new FileReader(...);\n        \/\/ use the reader\n    } catch (IOException ex) {\n        \/\/ ...\n    } finally {\n        if (r != null) {\n            try {\n                r.close();\n            } catch (IOException ex) {\n                \/\/ ignore\n            }\n        }\n    }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The chances are that the program worked on one operating system and not another because the limit on the number of open files is different on the two systems.  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