>Further, imagine you hit the limit on the shared file table.  How do
>you track which processes are currently hogging open files, or track
>the dynamic usage patterns over time?  In the end, I gave up and
>configured a kernel with MAXUSERS=2048, or something equally overconfigured.

c'mon...this is unix, dudes.  :)

% fstat | awk '$4\!="wd"&&$4\!="FD"{print$3}' | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -3
  17 26847
  23 6943
  31 4708
% ps 4708
  PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
 4708 ??  S<s   77:13.99 xntpd -p /var/run/xntpd.pid 

ah, but the machine has lots of addresses, so it's not leaking.

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