2.2.5 kernel not reusing filehandles?

John Mather (john.mather@voxar.com)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:46:00 +0100

I've got something bizarre going on with a 2.2.5 kernel. I keep running
out of file handles, but nothing is holding files open - lsof reports
only 800 files open while /proc/sys/fs/file-nr reports 28000
filehandles allocated and 27000 filehandles in use! Am I right in
supposing that this is inconsistant?

The problem seems to occur when many files are opened and closed in a
short space of time, specifically by the Cyrus imapd performing a
search, but I'm having trouble causing anything else to exhibit the same
behaviour.

Anyone seen this?

John

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