Re: Alpha 2.2.9: Too many open files problem

[furio ercolessi <furio spin it>]

> Symptoms are as follows:
> 
> Running the same workload repeatedly and monitoring /proc/sys/fs/file-nr
> the file-nr count gradually increases until it reaches (4096 10 4096). 
> If file-max is then raised by "echo 5000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max" and
> lsof(8) is run then ~500 files are reported as open.  What can be
> happening with the other ~3500 files that the kernel thinks are open?
> 
> Are any other utilities more suitable than lsof(8) for investigating
> this?

fuser (from package psmisc) is a useful tool.

furio ercolessi
Spin - Trieste (Italy)