On 12/15/06, Ejay Hire <ehire@cbrweb.com> wrote:

I'm looking at this too, for me it isn't releasing all of the index files consistently. Two questions.

1. I have a dumb question. Does FreeBSD allow you to see /set the # of files a process can open with ulimit?

Yep, in FreeBSD it's just "limits" which gives:

Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kb datasize 524288 kb stacksize 65536 kb coredumpsize infinity kb memoryuse infinity kb memorylocked infinity kb maxprocesses 5547 openfiles 22190 sbsize infinity bytes vmemoryuse infinity kb

22190 is double the default.

When I'm running without the issue (quota = dirsize) the # of open files is generally around 5k:

# sysctl kern.openfiles kern.openfiles: 4910

When I change it, I can get it to go as high as I want (I then change dovecot back to dirsize for quota)

sysctl kern.openfiles kern.openfiles: 19906

2. can you do an lsof (ls open files) and send that (zipped!!) over so I can see what it has open?

I just tried, but being a busy time right now, doing "lsof -p [PID] > lsof.txt" never returns before the # of open files gets maxed and the server goes to hell. I'll have to try again at a slower time to see if it will return- right now's about the busiest time of day on this box.

Is there anything in particular you're looking for in there? Most of the lines are similar to the ones in the attached (small!) text file.

Thanks, falz