Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:34:52 -0400 From: John <papalia@udel.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many open files in system Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001022192850.00adb470@mail.udel.edu> In-Reply-To: <14835.26280.803484.793146@guru.mired.org> References: <110118888@toto.iv>
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> > > 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. I've been watching this thread hoping that some good info comes to light, seeing as how I've had/got a similar problem... I may be *really* far off on this, but within the man page for sysctl, within `sysctl -a` and also in the source code of sysctl.h there appears to be no reference to kern.openfiles? Even more so interesting is that `sysctl -a | grep file | less` yields about 60+ lines of "<3>file: table is full". I don't want to step on the original poster's quest for an answer, but I'm thinking our problems are quite similar and am interested in learning what's 'wrong' :) --John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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