Hello SLUGgers:
I've got a Linux system with too many file handles being used.
/proc/sys/fs/file-nr reports about 7800 open files.
The 'lsof' command only reports only 600 files open.
Can anyone suggest how to track down the process or bug at fault here?
Regards,
Sonam Chauhan
------------------------------Contents of /proc/...------------------------------
[root@svr1 schauhan]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
8192
^^^^This is the max. num of file handles
[root@svr1 schauhan]# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
8192 7774 8192
^^^^This is the number of file handles used.
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Doco from: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/filesystems/proc.txt.html
The three values in file-nr denote the number of allocated file handles, the
number of used file handles, and the maximum number of file handles. When the
allocated file handles come close to the maximum, but the number of actually
used ones is far behind, you've encountered a peak in your usage of file
handles and you don't need to increase the maximum.
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