How many open files

[James Harrington]

Does any body know of a command I can use to find out how many open files a process has?

If not how about how many open files there are for the whole system?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi James:

Use 'lsof' for looking at an individual process.

Use 'glance' or 'sar -v' to obtain a system-wide (global) count.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Tom Danzig]

For a process:
lsof -p | wc -l

Systemwide:
lsof | wc -l
- or -
sar -v (and look at file-sz)

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

lsof is for sure the best answer. Couple more methods.

How many open files on the system?... Do a

sar -v 2 20 and observe file-sz parameter. These are the file descriptors currently in use.

For the other question, if you have glance, run glance and type "F" and enter the pid of the process. It will show all the files opened by that process.

-Sri

[harry d brown jr]

Glance/measureware

OR

lsof:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.64/


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