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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:30:35 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Monitoring Max Files Open ...
Message-ID:  <20000825113035.A1209@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008251505390.801-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from scrappy@hub.org on Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:06:37PM -0300
References:  <20000824220330.I1209@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008251505390.801-100000@thelab.hub.org>

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* The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [000825 11:06] wrote:
> 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'?

Not as easily as I whipped up that one, I don't think there's
hooks available for deterimining that.

sorry,
-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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