How many folders/files are you monitoring for changes?

On Friday, May 10, 2013 1:32:33 AM UTC-7, Winni Neessen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running OSSEC 2.7 on FreeBSD 8.4. Recently I received a kernel 
> warning, that maxfiles was exceeded. 
> I was wondering how this could be, as kern.maxfiles was configured to 32k. 
> A run of "lsof" quickly showed that
> OSSEC was the bad guy. 30k files were currently open through OSSEC. After 
> a restart the count was back to
> 1k. A week later I can see that the kern.openfiles is again at 18k and 
> constantly growing. 16k are again used
> by OSSEC.
>
> My question... is this normal behaviour by OSSEC, so that I need to adjust 
> my kern.maxfiles settings? Or could
> this be some kind of misbehaviour?
>
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Winni
>

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