From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751676AbVIZQpA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:45:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751678AbVIZQpA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:45:00 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:64008 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751673AbVIZQo7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:44:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4338258F.9080407@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:45:03 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050729 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: /proc/sys/fs/file-nr and threads Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm seeing a high number of files open, and there is no other reasonable cause other than threads in a single server operating. The code is complex, and I'm asking if the number of files "open" is somehow being counted as files open by the parent times number of threads. I'm getting some various error returns on file open which could be caused by that. Just looking for an answer for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, since this appears to be happening on both. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me