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250 sounds to me like the limit on the number of simultaneously open files for a process.

Are you really, really sure that the problem is with the part of the code you're looking at? Is there maybe some other place where you open a filehandle and don't close it soon enough?

Maybe you can write a small, self-contained program that reproduces the issue and doesn't need a remote ssh connection?

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Re^2: Working around limit to number of connections vis Net::OpenSSH
by nysus (Parson) on Mar 27, 2017 at 20:22 UTC

    Thanks. The remote file is never opened by the RemoteFile object and is read locally. Per your suggestion, and just to be safe, I commented that part out where the file gets downloaded and read and just used it to inspect the file properties (perms, whether it exists, etc.) and it still failed. Also, the number of runs it takes before it fails depends on how many other Net::OpenSSH objects already exist before it fails. So I'm pretty certain it has something to do with some kind of connection limit.

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Re^2: Working around limit to number of connections vis Net::OpenSSH
by nysus (Parson) on Mar 27, 2017 at 21:15 UTC

    Thanks, Corion. It was a file limit after all. See below.

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