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| author | Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> | 2015-05-25 22:51:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-05-27 20:28:37 -0300 |
| commit | 18ffdfe8e98f861a39590ef2374ad51fc963567e (patch) | |
| tree | 9b5340add5348d7116ecb88a74220bc3398686ea /tools | |
| parent | 84c2cafa288939e11d21c7830e32b2aee21b723e (diff) | |
perf tools: Add hint for 'Too many events are opened.' error message
Enhancing the 'Too many events are opened.' error message with hint to
use use 'ulimit -n <limit>' command.
Before:
$ perf record -e 'sched:*,syscalls:*' ls
Error:
Too many events are opened.
Try again after reducing the number of events.
Now:
$ perf record -e 'sched:*,syscalls:*' ls
Error:
Too many events are opened.
Probably the maximum number of open file descriptors has been reached.
Hint: Try again after reducing the number of events.
Hint: Try increasing the limit with 'ulimit -n <limit>'
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432587114-14924-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index c886b9f7a48d..a3e36fc634dc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -2149,7 +2149,9 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target, case EMFILE: return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", "Too many events are opened.\n" - "Try again after reducing the number of events."); + "Probably the maximum number of open file descriptors has been reached.\n" + "Hint: Try again after reducing the number of events.\n" + "Hint: Try increasing the limit with 'ulimit -n <limit>'"); case ENODEV: if (target->cpu_list) return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", |