Hello Shane, thanks for your valuable response, this is brilliant. this is what i was exactly looking for. very good command indeed.
Grateful for your kind assistance Thanks / Regards > On 26/03/2012 02:19, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Prabhpal S. Mavi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Greetings Friends, >>> >>> have anyone has come across this warning / error? This occurs when i >>> ssh >>> to my FreeBSD 9.0 System. any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Warning: >>> /usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips.dat: Too many open files in >>> system >>> [mavi@titan ~]$ su >>> su: pam_start: system error >>> >>> Thanks / Regards >>> Prabhpal >> >> What does this command say on your system? >> >> % sysctl kern.maxfiles kern.maxfilesperproc kern.openfiles >> >> You may have exceeded the maximum number of open files >> in the system. Maybe some ill-conceived program that doesn't >> close non-needed connections, files, etc is at fault? It's easy >> to open more and more files, and to gradually fill the open >> files descriptor table in the kernel this way. >> >> -cpghost. >> > > From knowing that you have too many files open you can increase the > maxfile numbers - but if you want to know what uses them try this - > > lsof -n | awk '{print $2 "\t" $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort > > lsof outputs open file info, awk then gives us the PID and proc name > which gets sorted and uniq gives a count of each which we sort to have > the largest file count at the bottom of the list. What you end up with > is a list of two numbers and a name - count of files open followed by > the PID and proc name that has them open. > > The catch is that it also includes network connections (I know how to > list only network but not sure how to exclude them) > > ps ax | grep PID > > will show you the full program name if it has been shortened. > > lsof -p PID > > will show all the open files for PID > > Not sure if this is the best way but it works for me. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
