On Jan 25, 11:55 ¨Âí¬ ÊéÓõòîáí¼êì®®®Àåöéìòåääòáçïî®îåô÷òïôåº > It seems that a number of people have run into this problem in different > situations. In my case, I have a large form in my Rails app with file > uploads (enctype="multipart/form-data"). > > When the form is submitted, the read_multipart method in CGI creates a > Tempfile for every element until the maximum number of open files is > reached and the process deadlocks. > > The attached script will try to open new files forever. On my machine, > before updating Ruby, the script dies when trying to open the 510th > file. <snip> # Code snippet in question count = 1 files = Array.new loop do print count.to_s + "\n" files << File.new("test#{count}.tmp", "w") count += 1 end What you're doing here is pushing the file _descriptor_ onto the 'files' array, not the file name, and you're never closing the descriptor. Simply increasing the descriptor limit isn't going to cut it. I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish, since I don't know if you need to write to those files at some later point or what, but you'll need to change your approach. Also, the 'tempfile' library may be of some interest to you. It's part of the standard library. Regards, Dan