On Mar 1, Gunnar Helliesen wrote
> This was with kern.maxfiles set to 13336.
> 
> I wrote a little shell-script to monitor the number of open files on the
> system. The granularity is 10 seconds. According to it, the maximum
> observed number of open files was 8765, observed some 6 hours earlier.
> 
> As I wrote in my previous message, that number is not steadily climbing
> while the system is up. It goes up and down all the time, as would be
> expected.

Maybe you could change your script to run fstat at the same time ?
Sure it will produce more output, but this should also allow to see who is
eating the files.
Maybe you just got a load peak ...

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