Re: Question about "File Descriptors"...

It can be seen as a fast changing peek measurement of how many
filedescriptors the process actually requires. Most OS:es allocates
lowest available filedescriptor first.

It is also a diagnostics tool: if it grows but # used is stable then
there is a leak of filedescriptors somewhere, causing the Squid process
to use more firedescriptors than it has accounted for.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> Okay, then...why?  Or is this another "means only something to the
> developers" sort of thing, like the 'select' one?
> 
> On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> 
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > > The 'Largest file desc currently in use:'...is that "in use since server
> > > started"?  or does that mean something altogether different?
> >
> > currently == in this moment.