Top "Lsof" questions

See what process is using a file in Mac OS X

I would like to be able to track a file and see which process is touching that file. Is that …

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lsof survival guide

lsof is an increadibly powerful command-line utility for unix systems. It lists open files, displaying information about them. And since …

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lsof should give all open files for a set of pids

I have 30 instances of a process running on a server and want to log open files for each process for …

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lsof print numeric ports

How do you get lsof to produce numeric port information instead of attempting to resolve the port to service name? …

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How to close a file descriptor from another process in unix systems

You can use command lsof to get file descriptors for all running processes, but what I would like to do …

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Seeing too many lsof can't identify protocol

I have a Java process/app. When I run /usr/sbin/lsof -p on that java process, I see a …

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"lsof" shows a file as (deleted) but I can still see it in file system

in Linux 2.6.27: From "lsof" output I see a process holding open fd with a (deleted) file. The strange thing is …

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How many open files for each process running for a specific user in Linux

Running Apache and Jboss on Linux, sometimes my server halts unexpectedly saying that the problem was Too Many Open Files. …

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In Mac OS X, how can I get an accurate count of file descriptor usage?

On Linux, ulimit -n can be used to change or view the limit on the number of file descriptors for …

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What does the FD column of pipes listed by lsof mean?

I'm using the following command to get a list of pipes: lsof | grep PIPE I want to know what the …

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