[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

Jakub Kulik added the comment: I am closing this as it is true that the limit on files of 256 is pretty low, and no matter how robust you make it, arbitrarily low ulimits will crash it anyway. -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

Jakub Kulik added the comment: I am not sure what you are asking now. compileall with -j0 does compile on all cores simultaneously right? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I guess you'd get a similar problem if you were compiling on all cores simultaneously? 256 simultaneous open files is very low. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

Jakub Kulik added the comment: We have a limit of 256 opened files, which is not much, but I can up it and then it doesn't happen. Mainly, I wanted to report that this might be happening now. But I guess not many people will face this problem. --

[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Can't you just up the ulimit? What the current ulimit for your user? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

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[issue37232] Parallel compilation fails because of low ulimit.

New submission from Jakub Kulik : When building and installing Python 3.8 on our sparc machine, the build breaks during the compileall stage with [Error 24] Too many open files. The problem is due to the recently enabled parallel compilation (issue36786). When -j0 is passed to the