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freebsdfile-descriptorfstat

fstat - total file descriptor count on freebsd system?


How to get the current count of file descriptors in the system?

I know how to get the maximum.

% sysctl kern.maxfiles
kern.maxfiles: 8232

Ref:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fstat&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html


Solution

  • Are you looking for kern.openfiles?

    [ghoti@pc ~]$ sysctl -ad | grep 'kern.*files:'
    kern.maxfiles: Maximum number of files
    kern.openfiles: System-wide number of open files
    [ghoti@pc ~]$