Anno domini 2024 Thu, 6 Jun 09:35:21 -0300 Jim via tde-users scripsit: > On Wed, Jun 5, 2024 at 19:49 (-0700), Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: > > > On Wed June 5 2024 18:33:35 Jim via tde-users wrote: > >> Mike, how did you calculate how many files are opened by firefox? I just > >> added up all the entries in /proc/<pid>/fd for firefox and its children > >> processes and I "only" got 1881. > > >> 2256004 seems like an astonishing number. Can you clarify this? > > > Hi Jim, > > > "lsof -n | grep firefox | wc -l" includes things like memory mapped libraries. > > > "ps ax | grep firefox | wc -l" currently yields 78 firefox processes but > > "ps -eLf | grep firefox | wc -l" yields 2319 firefox threads. > > > (This of course is nowhere near bulletproof but it'll do for now.) > > > I probably have a couple hundred tabs open, across 23 firefox windows. > > Thanks Mike. > > I have three different firefox profiles running, and I'd guess over 100 > tabs (more than I feel like counting right now). What are you guys doing with that many tabs open ??? > > For lsof -n | grep firefox | wc -l I get 882961 (which is a lot more > than I would have guessed before seeing your message, but not up in the > same range as you). > > (Incidentally, I see that that the above grep catches lots of lines like > Socket 621 ... /usr/lib64/firefox/libsoftokn3.so > and I wonder whether the above grep double-counts some things. But maybe > that isn't a big deal anyway.) > > FYI, on my system right now ps ax | grep firefox | wc -l gives 100, > and ps -eLf | grep firefox | wc -l gives 3105. > > It is interesting (to me) that you have fewer threads, and yet about 2.55 > times as many files opened. > > > For comparison, for a chromium instance with 22 tabs lsof reports 75422 > files, and for 9 (collectively) urxvt terminals (with some perl extensions) > lsof reports 732 open files. Evidently the web browser programmers are > experts at writing software that uses lots of files. ;-) > > Cheers. > Jim > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
