Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 11:21:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> To: Laurence Barry <laurence@herculeez.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nfiles Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0008031117380.11190-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> In-Reply-To: <39898501.6FDC3C79@herculeez.com>
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Laurence Barry wrote: > Sure this is a simple one ... > > I need to determine the total number of files open on a system. The only > way I can think to do this is a sysctl() call with mib[0]=CTL_KERN and > mib[1]=KERN_FILE, then trawl through the file structure that is > returned. There must be a simpler way. You can add a new sysctl variable named something like "kern.openfiles" easily to account for the number of file structures in use. Adding a new sysctl variable is really easy (two lines are enough). But you need to build a custom kernel. See FreeBSD handbook online for how to do this. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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