Date: 26 Apr 2005 15:37:12 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.openfiles Message-ID: <44acnlnxcn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAraBMZwunwUCj0cCUC/kKUsKAAAAQAAAAznpt/Nn2ZE6W1EBrQLt2egEAAAAA@bitifarm.ee> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAraBMZwunwUCj0cCUC/kKUsKAAAAQAAAAznpt/Nn2ZE6W1EBrQLt2egEAAAAA@bitifarm.ee>
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"Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L" <lauri@bitifarm.ee> writes: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-Release, with apache2, php5, icecast2 and sc_nsv. > To my understanding some process is eating up the file handles (over couple > of days the kern.openfiles has gone from 170 to 1700). Sooner or later this > will result in "kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded" errors. > Is there a way to see wich application is holding most of these file handles > and not releasing them? You are looking for fstat(1). There are some clever scripts around for making use of the output, but I find that sort(1) is usually enough to help me quickly find a file hog.
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