I’ve recently had to deal with a process leaking file descriptors. The following command came in handy as a quick way to count how many file descriptors a process is using.<\/p>\n
Let’s say that we want to count them for the process(es) called firefox:<\/p>\n
[bash]ps -ae | grep firefox | perl -lane ‘print $F[0]’ | while read filename; do ls \/proc\/$filename\/fd; done | wc -w[\/bash]<\/p>\n
TADAA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve recently had to deal with a process leaking file descriptors. The following command came in handy as a quick way to count how many file descriptors a process is using. Let’s say that we want to count them for the process(es) called firefox: [bash]ps -ae | grep firefox | perl -lane ‘print $F[0]’ | … <\/p>\n