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DolphinA2
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10 years ago

Dropbox Java API - java.net.SocketException: Too many open files

I am using Dropbox Java API to make a large amount of requests to Dropbox API to createFolder and upload files. Currently, I am doing this sequentially, that is, no parallel thread, etc. I am regu...
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Kannan G.1
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10 years ago

We currently aren't able to reproduce the issue ourselves. Do you get the error when you only call createFolder in a loop? Or do you also have to call uploadFile?

The readJsonFromResponse() function is not responsible for closing the stream. There's higher-level code that should close the stream.

I found an open source "file leak detector" (http://file-leak-detector.kohsuke.org/). I've never used it before, but it looks straightforward. That might help locate the issue.

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