From c0746f23dfb69a7b306a8b386ec08ecb05c6fea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Eren=20G=C3=B6lge?= <egolge@coqui.ai>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 15:16:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix `too many open files`

---
 TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py b/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py
index 210de803..dee719ef 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ from torch.utils.data import Dataset
 from TTS.tts.utils.data import prepare_data, prepare_stop_target, prepare_tensor
 from TTS.utils.audio import AudioProcessor
 
+# to prevent too many open files error as suggested here
+# https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/11201#issuecomment-421146936
+torch.multiprocessing.set_sharing_strategy('file_system')
+
 
 def _parse_sample(item):
     language_name = None