Re: [log4perl-devel] appender/dispatcher that writes to per-category files

[Kevin M. G. <cp...@go...>]

Mike Schilli wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
> 
>> My main worry is number of open file handles. Especially with
>> mod_perl, since a lot of those handles will be opened individually in
>> the child processes. Any idea what kind of limits on
>> number of open handles I can expect to hit on a reasonable Unix
>> system?
> 
> Depends. The easiest way to find out is this one:
...
> 
> prints
> 
>     died at 1020 at ./t line 7.
> 
> so that's it :). 


I think he was looking for the total number of open file handles per
system, not per process. Try this:

	cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max