Re: curl

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On 28-04-13 19:12, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:21:17PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> how do I lower the file limit?
>> ulimit(1)
> Thanks, that has actually worked in a manual build: ulimit -n 512
>
> I don't understand why it works,

Presumably the test checks if it can actually open enough files to do
its thing, and will exit with exit state 77 if not (which signals to
automake that the test was skipped)

> but would it improve the performance of the
> buildds if we set this by default?

Highly unlikely. It's more likely that other builds will just start
failing instead, because they can't open files.

It made sense in this one particular case, but that doesn't mean it will
be a good idea always.

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