On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 08:35, Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@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.przyw...@arm.com> > --- > tools/genboardscfg.py | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> Please send such machine. Thank you. Applied to u-boot-dm, thanks!
