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author | Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> | 2023-10-13 07:59:45 +0000 |
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committer | Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> | 2023-10-19 23:38:27 -0700 |
commit | c4a852635eddcf4130a93e687bc7b120b19fd1b7 (patch) | |
tree | e8a8dbbd5cd44b6ceddf40480b56016585a8cf38 /tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py | |
parent | 3f8b6e5b11192dacb721d2d28ea4589917f5e822 (diff) |
perf data: Increase RLIMIT_NOFILE limit when open too many files in perf_data__create_dir()
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.
Before:
$ ulimit -n
1024
$ lscpu | grep 'On-line CPU(s)'
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
$ perf record --threads -a sleep 1
Failed to create data directory: Too many open files
After:
$ ulimit -n
1024
$ lscpu | grep 'On-line CPU(s)'
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-159
$ perf record --threads -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.394 MB perf.data (1576 samples) ]
Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231013075945.698874-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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