How to monitor the number of open files for a particular process

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • How to monitor if process is approaching the nofile limit.
  • How to determine appropriate nofile limit when getting the "Too many files open" error.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server

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