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Karen, > To: address@hidden > From: "Karen Cooper" <address@hidden> > Subject: pqact PIPE problems > Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory > Keywords: 200401141757.i0EHvIp2008899 LDM The above message contained the following: > I was wondering if there was possibly some limit on the number of pipes > that could be open, and/or if anyone else has had a simliar problem with > having many pipes open at once. There is another limit that might be a factor: it is the total number of FILE, STDIOFILE, DBFILE, and PIPE entries in a pqact(1) configuration-file. This limit is defined by the MAXENTRIES macro in the file pqact/filel.c and is currently hard-coded at 32. If a data-product arrives that doesn't have a currently active process that implements the action associated with the data-product, then the process associated with the least-recently-used action will be terminated (closing that action's associated file descriptor). What is the total number of FILE, STDIOFILE, DBFILE, and PIPE entries in your pqact(1) file? Regards, Steve Emmerson