Re: [PATCH 06/13] perf tools: Cache dso data file descriptor

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Jun 03 2014 - 09:45:15 EST


On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 07:39:09AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 6/2/14, 3:18 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> >+static rlim_t get_fd_limit(void)
> >+{
> >+ struct rlimit l;
> >+ rlim_t limit = 0;
> >+
> >+ /* Allow half of the current open fd limit. */
> >+ if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &l) == 0) {
> >+ if (l.rlim_cur == RLIM_INFINITY)
> >+ limit = l.rlim_cur;
>
>
> Why not limit this to something reasonable -- 512 or 1024 -- rather
> "infinity" (~0UL).

hum, if there's no limit for the user at the first place
why limit him in the perf..?

jirka
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