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From: Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net>
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Subject: re: too many open files 
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
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I still wonder if some other parameter is being consumed other that
file descriptors.  It would be nice if we could get some sort of "lsof"
port or some system call to spew a list of open file descriptors out
in a readable dump file.

It also sounds like Brian has some sort of deadlock problem.  Maybe NFS is
creating some sort of lock problem which prevents new processes from
being created.  Some sort of unresolvable buffer/vm page deadlock condition?

I wonder if his processes cannot exit and release their resources because
of some condition like this.  This would just gum things up as more 
processes got created.

Regards,

Mark Hittinger
bugs@win.net