perf tools: Add hint for 'Too many events are opened.' error message
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Mon, 25 May 2015 20:51:54 +0000 (22:51 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 May 2015 23:28:37 +0000 (20:28 -0300)
commit18ffdfe8e98f861a39590ef2374ad51fc963567e
tree9b5340add5348d7116ecb88a74220bc3398686ea
parent84c2cafa288939e11d21c7830e32b2aee21b723e
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>
tools/perf/util/evsel.c