Re: [Texmacs-dev] number of open files

[Josef Weidendorfer]

On Friday 16 September 2011, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > Just a quick guess: After mmap'ing a file, you can close the
> > descriptor, but perhaps it still falls under the OS X limit until
> > a munmap is done? This would explain the connection to freetype,
> > which seems to map fonts into memory.
> 
> Thanks for this possible explanation. Is there some way to know
> how many closed FDs are mapped into memory and still counted by the OS?
> This would allow me to check whether your hypothesis is right.

In Linux, you can see the mappings of a process in /proc/<PID>/maps.
Not sure about OS-X.

Josef