On Solaris I would use pfiles rather than lsof, especially since pfiles ships with the OS and lsof does not... -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Kovacs Baldvin [mailto:baldvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 7:41 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Harald Falkenberg Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Re: How to solve this descriptor problem on solaris 8 and apache 1.3.33 > thank you for your help. Have you or someone else an idea what causes > such a high use of file descriptors? How can I monitor the usage of > file descriptors and see what kind of files are related to them? If you are using unix (any variant, like linux) try to become root, then figure out the process ids of apache: ps ax | grep apache Pick some pids, and use the lsof command lsof -p PID | less Best regards, Baldvin --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx