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| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/kvm/kvm_stat | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat index 611f82ad2a..2a1842e33e 100755 --- a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat +++ b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat @@ -434,11 +434,19 @@ class TracepointProvider(object): # The constant is needed as a buffer for python libs, std # streams and other files that the script opens. - rlimit = len(cpus) * len(self._fields) + 50 + newlim = len(cpus) * len(self._fields) + 50 try: - resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (rlimit, rlimit)) + softlim_, hardlim = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE) + + if hardlim < newlim: + # Now we need CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, to increase the hard limit. + resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (newlim, newlim)) + else: + # Raising the soft limit is sufficient. + resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (newlim, hardlim)) + except ValueError: - sys.exit("NOFILE rlimit could not be raised to {0}".format(rlimit)) + sys.exit("NOFILE rlimit could not be raised to {0}".format(newlim)) for cpu in cpus: group = Group() |