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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kvm/kvm_stat11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
index 457624d..93b5ea7 100755
--- a/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
+++ b/scripts/kvm/kvm_stat
@@ -395,8 +395,15 @@ class TracepointProvider(object):
def _setup(self, _fields):
self._fields = _fields
cpus = self._online_cpus()
- nfiles = len(cpus) * 1000
- resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (nfiles, nfiles))
+
+ # The constant is needed as a buffer for python libs, std
+ # streams and other files that the script opens.
+ rlimit = len(cpus) * len(_fields) + 50
+ try:
+ resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (rlimit, rlimit))
+ except ValueError:
+ sys.exit("NOFILE rlimit could not be raised to {0}".format(rlimit))
+
events = []
self.group_leaders = []
for cpu in cpus: