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Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:11 pm
Hello,
I've started using Fusion 8 on Mac (very light use, doing tutorials etc), and at some point I faced problems with other software on the system complaining about "too many files open", a problem that caused instability and forced me to reboot a few times. It sounded like I was hitting an operating system limit so I investigated a bit and found out that the latest version of macOS has a relatively low limit of file descriptors (about 4000). I increased that for good measure, but then I became curious as to why I suddenly hit that problem.
I used the following line in the console to find out how many file descriptors each process had opened:
It simply lists the sorted number of open files per process.
I continued using my laptop as normal (with browser, chat software etc running) and I opened a couple of simple compositions in Fusion, hit space to force them to render all frames for preview, left preview running for a couple of minutes and then stopped it. I simply left Fusion idle and re-run the above line every couple of minutes. I noticed that Fusion quickly became the process with the most open files, but the weird thing is that the number kept increasing without using it. That leads me to believe that Fusion may have been leaking file descriptors, and my laptop would become unstable because of my habit of leaving Fusion open overnight (without using it for rendering or anything).
Versions:
Fusion 8.2.1 build 6
masOS 10.12.2
Is there any way to reach the developers and let them know about this? Sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask about this.
Thanks,
Stathis
I've started using Fusion 8 on Mac (very light use, doing tutorials etc), and at some point I faced problems with other software on the system complaining about "too many files open", a problem that caused instability and forced me to reboot a few times. It sounded like I was hitting an operating system limit so I investigated a bit and found out that the latest version of macOS has a relatively low limit of file descriptors (about 4000). I increased that for good measure, but then I became curious as to why I suddenly hit that problem.
I used the following line in the console to find out how many file descriptors each process had opened:
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lsof | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nk1
It simply lists the sorted number of open files per process.
I continued using my laptop as normal (with browser, chat software etc running) and I opened a couple of simple compositions in Fusion, hit space to force them to render all frames for preview, left preview running for a couple of minutes and then stopped it. I simply left Fusion idle and re-run the above line every couple of minutes. I noticed that Fusion quickly became the process with the most open files, but the weird thing is that the number kept increasing without using it. That leads me to believe that Fusion may have been leaking file descriptors, and my laptop would become unstable because of my habit of leaving Fusion open overnight (without using it for rendering or anything).
Versions:
Fusion 8.2.1 build 6
masOS 10.12.2
Is there any way to reach the developers and let them know about this? Sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask about this.
Thanks,
Stathis