[lug] Monitoring file descriptors

[Ben Whaley]

The intention of this is not to tell me which process has thousands of file
descriptors, but instead to tell me when I'm LOW on file descriptor so I can
log in and check. Once logged in, I would do something like:

for x in `ps -ef| awk '{ print $2 }'`; do echo "$x: ";  sudo ls /proc/$x/fd;
done

to find which process was hogging the file descriptors.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:

> Oh yeah, a really stupid question.  Why not just count the number of
> entries in /proc/####/fd?  Wouldn't that quickly tell you which process has
> thousands of open file descriptors?
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