Limit on number of recorders?

[Toutant]

Dear all,

Are you aware of any limitations on the number of recorders that we can have for a dynamic analysis?

I am trying to record stressStrain on a cross-section at 126 points for 3 different locations along a column. With all the other recorders I have it's a total of around 800 separate output files. My problem is if I record stressStrain at only 1 location on the column, everything works. However when I try to run the dynamic analysis and record stressStrain at all 3 locations, I get the following error and the analysis aborts :

WARNING - PathSeries::PathSeries() - could not open file ****filename.txt***

Regards.

[fmk]

the operating system is imposing a limit on num of open files.

if on windows you can up it to 1024 from default 512
http://opensees.berkeley.edu/wiki/index ... es_Command

[Toutant]

Thank you very much Mr. McKenna.

[francisconazar]

Complementing, in Unix systems you can redefine the limit of max number of open files.
See, for example, http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -mavericks

Regards.