Re: file-max/inode-max question

[Karl <karl.mueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Derek Glidden wrote:
> 
...
> 
> Is it crazy that we should see _used_ (not just "allocated")
> file-handles on a config like this grow into the thousands and nearing
> the ten-thousands mark?  Or does something somewhere, possibly one of
> the RedHat-supplied packages, have a leak that I should try to track
> down?
> 

you might want to run lsof and see what process(es) are maintaining
large numbers of open files.  we had a problem similar to this that was
caused by some errant logging in our code.