Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > * Omair Majid: > >> Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> * Jan Kratochvil: >>> >>>> gold is also limited by 'ulimit -S -n', I had to raise it while building LLDB >>>> (using -DLLVM_USE_LINKER=gold). >>> >>> gold should either do this upon start (like OpenJDK does), >> >> Do you have any pointers to source or docs that explain the OpenJDK >> technique for this? > > Uhm, now I have to look. I hope it really does that, I noticed it only > because it was possible to open more than 1024 files, contrary to what I > expected based on the system configuration. > > The responsible code is os::init_2(), in > src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp: > > if (MaxFDLimit) { > // set the number of file descriptors to max. print out error > // if getrlimit/setrlimit fails but continue regardless. > struct rlimit nbr_files; > int status = getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &nbr_files); > if (status != 0) { > log_info(os)("os::init_2 getrlimit failed: %s", os::strerror(errno)); > } else { > nbr_files.rlim_cur = nbr_files.rlim_max; > status = setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &nbr_files); > if (status != 0) { > log_info(os)("os::init_2 setrlimit failed: %s", os::strerror(errno)); > } > } > } > > rlim_max is what is sometimes called the hard limit, rlim_cur the soft > limit. It is the difference between “ulimit -S -n” and “ulimit -H -n”. > The quoted code fragment raises the soft limit up to the hard limit, > which is as far as you can go without additional privileges. > > Does this answer your question? Yes, it does. Thanks. (I was secretly hoping there was a way to bump rlim_cur past the current value of rlim_max...) Omair -- PGP Key: B157A9F0 (http://pgp.mit.edu/) Fingerprint = 9DB5 2F0B FD3E C239 E108 E7BD DF99 7AF8 B157 A9F0 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx