Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:14:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many open files in system Message-ID: <14835.26280.803484.793146@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <110118888@toto.iv>
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Arcady Genkin writes: > > Looking at the sysctl man page, you'll find plenty of options to > > tweak. I see a kern.maxfiles option, though I'm not exactly sure what > > it does. Sounds like it may be worth looking into. > This option is not explained in the manpage, so I looked at > sys/sysctl.h file and it seems that this might be the max number of > open files on the system. However, this number is set to 552 right > now, whereas `lsof' reports 809 open files. > ,---- > | soup:/usr/include/sys# sysctl kern.maxfiles > | kern.maxfiles: 552 > | soup:/usr/include/sys# lsof | wc -l > | 809 > `---- > Am I misunderstanding something? Any further ideas? I don't have the lsof man page installed, but it may be counting every occurence of a shared file descriptor, whereas kern.maxfiles counts the actual open file descriptors. Try checking kern.openfiles. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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