Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:19:35 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> To: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Continually count the number of open files Message-ID: <592123F4-E610-446E-82B4-ACC519C0BA3E@iitbombay.org> In-Reply-To: <291ad2de-ba0e-4bdf-786a-19614eacec49@gmail.com> References: <291ad2de-ba0e-4bdf-786a-19614eacec49@gmail.com>
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On Sep 11, 2023, at 11:38 PM, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> = wrote: >=20 > Can anything like systat(1) present a count, continually? How about=20 while sleep 0.1; do sysctl -n kern.openfiles; done Or you can write a small program using sysctl(3). >=20 > I'd like to monitor, after log in to Plasma (X11), in connection with = <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D273669>. Not sure checking how many files are open will help you. Looks like "baloo" is using inotify to watch changes on every file & directory or something. Simulating inotify with kqueue under FreeBSD doesn't scale well. FreeBSD should add inotify.=
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