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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCHv3] List per-process file descriptor consumption when hitting file-max
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:06:37 +0100
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Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> writes:

> When a file descriptor limit is hit, display the top consumers of
> descriptors so that it is possible to identify and fix those which
> leak them.

Can't you get that information from /proc/*/fd/ ? 

Doing it in user space would be much saner.

-Andi

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