serious bug: something eats up filehandles

From: Mark Semmler (mark.semmler@frontsite.de)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 18:56:47 EST


Hi!

I noticed a serious bug in 2.2.14 (and maybe later?!):

a) under some circumstances, /proc/sys/fs/file-nr reports
   the opposit of what's going on

   If the maximum number of open files has been increased, the number
   of open files reported by the kernel is going to be wrong.
   As more files are opened, as less are reported by
   /proc/sys/fs/file-nr. It's exactly like a mirror.

b) under some circumstances, the number of allocated filehandles
   increasing permanently

   If the maximum number of open files has been increased,
   /proc/sys/fs/file-nr reports more and more allocated filehandles.
   These handles are not reported by lsof.

Is this a known bug? How can I help?
Am I wrong?

Mark

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