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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Michal Mertl wrote:

> As I already replied to Jonathan the output of fstat (and lsof) looks
> normal. After going to _single_user_ with no processess running, fstat
> shows only a handful of files (sh and fstat itself) yet kern.maxfiles is
> large.

nitpick: I assume you meant kern.openfiles, since kern.maxfiles is the
systemwide limit on the # of files and doesn't change unless you change
it.

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