On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, John S. Evans wrote:
> I'm using Solaris (SunOS 5.7, according to uname).
>
> The number of files varies, and I can control this if I know what the limits
> are. Is the 256 limit per process or for the entire machine? For instance,
> if I have 10 apache children going full bore, is the practical limit 25 per
> child, or 256 per child?
i think it's per-child.
> I saw (in the code) that there's one open file per uploaded file. That
> should be fine. I just need to find out if they're getting closed
> correctly.
>
> What is "lsof"?
look it up on freshmeat.net, it'll show you what files the process has
open. should be useful to see if any files are not being closed.
