From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754245Ab1ATUkG (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:40:06 -0500 Received: from exprod7og108.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.169]:60184 "EHLO exprod7og108.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753343Ab1ATUkE (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:40:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4D389D8B.7010301@genband.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:39:39 -0600 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: why does /proc/sys/fs/file-nr not match total of /proc//fd entries? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jan 2011 20:39:41.0588 (UTC) FILETIME=[29EF9D40:01CBB8E2] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-17906.001 X-TM-AS-Result: No--9.556100-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Someone asked me a question that I couldn't answer, so I'm passing it on to you. Why do the values in /proc/sys/fs/file-nr not match up with the value given by "ls -al /proc/[0-9]*/fd/ | grep '>' | wc -l" ? For instance, on my desktop /proc/sys/fs/file-nr gives "9728 0 306699" but the other command gives "2894". Where is the discrepancy coming from? Thanks, Chris -- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.friesen@genband.com www.genband.com