[Radiance-general] Understanding rtcontrib

[Greg Ward]

Ah.  Sounds like you're running up against a system limit on the  
number of open file descriptors, which is typically set to 256.  I  
don't know how to overcome this.  The ulimit command should provide  
help, but I can't get it to behave for me.

When I use reinhart.cal, I don't usually produce separate component  
files for this reason.

Best,
-Greg

> From: Christian Humann <chris at coolshadow.com>
> Date: February 6, 2010 12:42:28 PM PST
>
> As always, thanks for the response Greg.
>
> As suggested I tried adding the -bn option, however ;rtcontrib'  
> still only generates 248 unfinished files with the '-e MF:2'  
> option.  All works fine with 'e MF:1'.  I tried sending the files to  
> a ramdisk, but still no joy.
>
> I'm wondering if I did something funny when compiling the most  
> recent head under OS X?  Has anyone had similar results using Linux  
> or Cygwin?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris H