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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 15:06:37 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Monitoring Max Files Open ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008251505390.801-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000824220330.I1209@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [000824 21:01] wrote:
> > 
> > Just wondering if anyone knows of a command in FreeBSD that will allow me
> > to monitor 'peak' open files?  I hit the 4136 limit the other day with a
> > database server and up'd it to 8192, but would like to give myself a bit
> > of a warning if I come close to that, and figured a 'peak' number like
> > 'netstat -m' gives for mbufs would help ...
> > 
> > thanks ...
> 
> download and compile this:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/nfiles.tgz
> 
> kldload it and do a 'sysctl -a | grep files'

gives:

thelab# sysctl -a | grep files
kern.maxfiles: 2088
kern.maxfilesperproc: 2088
kern.usedfiles: 348
p1003_1b.mapped_files: 1

any way of adding in one more that is 'kern.peakusedfiles'?




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