file descriptors on HPUX

[Brian Killeen_1]

Howdy All,

Does anyone know how to find the number of free file descriptors on HPUX?

Short and sweet

Brian

[James Beamish-White]

Hi,

I have heard that lsof can monitor file descriptors, though I have never used it for such. Try taking a look at http://www.cert.org/security-improvement/implementations/i042.05.html and reading a bit about it.

Cheers,
James

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

Get into glance -> press t (for tables)
and look at nfiles usage. Nfiles is the number of files which can be opened system-wide.

-raj

[Carlos Fernandez Riera · Accepted solution]

run sar -v 5 5.

[Brian Killeen_1]

Thanks to James, Rajman & Carlos for their help - The lsof is interesting and the glance does give the nfiles value - But if you want fast info on what is open the sar -v 5 5 is the quickest action - Cheers all