Lower the limit on file descriptors with ulimit -n
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Valgrind 3.21.0 will exit if the fd limit is too high. This change is described here: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465435 A quote from a maintainer in that issue is: "We're not going to change Valgrind to handle insane rlimits that Docker presents", however it looks like Ubuntu 24.10 sets this limit very high: $ uname -a Linux bepi 6.11.0-1004-lowlatency Shopify#4-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Sep 30 10:54:09 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ ulimit -n 1073741816 I suspect this patch will not work on some systems for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to start a conversation about how to address this issue.
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I guess the underlying issue might be that I've misconfigured my system somehow, but I've seen this on multiple Ubuntu 24.10 systems. 🤷 |
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Valgrind 3.21.0 will exit if the fd limit is too high. This change is described here:
And the symptom is that Valgrind exits prematurely with this error message:
A quote from a maintainer in that issue is: "We're not going to change Valgrind to handle insane rlimits that Docker presents", however it looks like Ubuntu 24.10 sets this limit very high:
I suspect this patch will not work on some systems for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to start a conversation about how to address this issue.