Re: Continually count the number of open files

On Sep 12, 2023, at 11:59 PM, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> (I'm a tcsh user, I can easily 'sh' before running the command.)

You can switch to zsh. Most of csh/tcsh + sh + many more features.

> baloo is not used in 273669.

It certainly feels like an inotify like use or a file-descr leak.
The bug reporter can try "procstat fd <pid>" on running processes
to see which one has all those open files. Another thing worth
trying is to run under ktrace -di to see which syscalls were made.