Re: Continually count the number of open files

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:59:21 UTC 
On 12/09/2023 17:19, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2023, at 11:38 PM, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can anything like systat(1) present a count, continually?
> How about
>
> 	while sleep 0.1; do sysctl -n kern.openfiles; done


That's ideal, thanks. I knew about the sysctl, but not how to form a 
command like the one above.

(I'm a tcsh user, I can easily 'sh' before running the command.)

>
> Or you can write a small program using sysctl(3).
>
>> I'd like to monitor, after log in to Plasma (X11), in connection with <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273669>.
> Not sure checking how many files are open will help you.
> Looks like "baloo" is using inotify to watch changes on
> every file & directory or something. Simulating inotify
> with kqueue under FreeBSD doesn't scale well. FreeBSD
> should add inotify.

baloo is not used in 273669.

I'm beginning to investigate something unrelated to KDE that has bugged 
me, on FreeBSD, for a very long time.

Thanks