node and Error: EMFILE, too many open files

Question

For some days I have searched for a working solution to an error

Error: EMFILE, too many open files

It seems that many people have the same proble

Answer 1

cwait is a general solution for limiting concurrent executions of any functions that return promises.

In your case the code could be something like:

var Promise = require('bluebird');
var cwait = require('cwait');

// Allow max. 10 concurrent file reads.
var queue = new cwait.TaskQueue(Promise, 10);
var read = queue.wrap(Promise.promisify(batchingReadFile));

Promise.map(files, function(filename) {
    console.log(filename);
    return(read(filename));
})