On 1/27/2011 12:41 PM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> powertop registers quite some perf events per cpu.
> I get a misleading error message pointing to wrong kernel settings if
> the file descriptors run out.
>
> This improves the error message to:
> Registered 1021 perf events, failed due to file descriptor limits
> Try again with increased limit: ulimit -n<limit>
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger<[email protected]>

your patch is fine.. but it's sweeping the issue under the rug

but it shows that I need to get off my behind and share events for all 
cpus in the same perf buffer


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