Apps The bug issue!

[outcast_no5]

I'm currently working on a cool Android game which was about to be released real soon. Some of our beta testers started complaining that the game crashes with the

 

[GeorgeN]

Do you really have 1024 files open (in which case I think you probably have a few architectural problems of your own)? Or are you forgetting to close your file handles and leaking them?

 

[GeorgeN]

If you don't already know which files are open (or you want to trackdown a leak) and you have access to a rooted device with busybox, you can run the "lsof" (list open file descriptors) command from "adb shell" or a terminal emulator application (you need to run it as root).

This command will list all the files which the sdcard process has open:

lsof | grep ^sdcard

And this command will count the number of file descriptors the sdcard process has open:

lsof | grep ^sdcard -c

On my Nexus 7 (with a few apps running in the background) the sdcard process only has 23 open files.