One month ago a colleague asked me a question: why the "file-size" in output of "sar -v" is different with "lsof | wc -l"? For example: # sar -v 09:23:31  proc-sz     inod-sz     file-sz     thrd-sz    09:23:32  82/262144   0/201       933/11215   321/524288 # lsof | wc -l      767 From above output we can find that lsof reports a smaller number than file-sz (767 vs 933). He thought the file-size means the number of open files in the system, and the lsof also reports files opened by processes in the system. So it... [More]

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