On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 08:35, Andre Przywara andre.przywara@arm.com wrote:
When genboardscfg.py is run on machines with 255 or more cores, the process will consume more than 1024 file descriptors, which is a common standard ulimit for user processes. As a consequence it will fail with a lenghty Python trace, with the almost hidden message: OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files
It's somewhat questionable whether that level of parallelity is actually useful for genboardscfg, so we limit the *default* number of jobs to the safe number of 240, to avoid the problem. If a user persists, she can still force a higher number via the -j parameter - hopefully having raised the ulimit accordingly beforehand.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara andre.przywara@arm.com
tools/genboardscfg.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Please send such machine. Thank you.