From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with the cpp change after 2000-06-18
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 10:22:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000703102201.F274@wolery.cumb.org>
References: <20000703100919.A1221@lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg00022.html

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:09:19AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> Hi, Zack,
> 
> I am not sure if I like the cpp change after 2000-06-18 when cpp keeps
> so many files open. The problem is on a 4way SMP machie, I can do
> 
> # make MAKE="make -j 8"
> 
> in the Linux kernel build. My system file descriptor limit is reached
> in minutes. Then other processes on my machine start dying. I know you
> put in a fix so that cpp won't die. But it doesn't help other processes.
> I think you should put a limit on the number of opened files in cpp.

Try using ulimit -n.

zw