[LLVMdev] Proposal: release MDNodes for source modules (LTO+debug info)

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2013.11.15 at 12:49 -0500, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
> On 15 November 2013 11:30, Stephen Checkoway <s at pahtak.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Taking a really quick at the gold code it looks like it tries to keep
> >> 8176 files open. I would suggest putting a breakpoint in
> >> Descriptors::close_some_descriptor and checking why it is failing to
> >> close the files.
> >
> > That is a lot of file descriptors to keep open. It's well above my
> > system's default hard and soft limit, iirc.
> >
> > I'll try to look at it next week. Deadlines looming!
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Checkoway
> >
> >
> >
> Just a guess, but it might have something to do with the chrome build
> using thin archives.

See: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15660

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Markus