Re: [PATCH] perf data: Increase RLIMIT_NOFILE limit when open too many files in perf_data__create_dir()

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 - 17:21:45 EST


On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:59:45 +0000, Yang Jihong wrote:
> If using parallel threads to collect data, perf record needs at least 6 fds
> per CPU. (one for sys_perf_event_open, four for pipe msg and ack of the
> pipe, see record__thread_data_open_pipes(), and one for open perf.data.XXX)
> For an environment with more than 100 cores, if perf record uses both
> `-a` and `--threads` options, it is easy to exceed the upper limit of the
> file descriptor number, when we run out of them try to increase the limits.
>
> [...]

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!