While troubleshooting intermittent "Too many open files" errors, you need to check the exact soft and hard RLIMIT_NOFILE values that an already-running process with PID 2558 inherited. Which command will show you those limits immediately without modifying the process?
Reading the pseudo-file /proc//limits prints a table that lists every resource limit, including the soft and hard values for "Max open files," for the specified process. This file is populated by the kernel for each process and can be viewed safely with ordinary file-reading tools. The other options either report limits for the current shell (ulimit -a), count currently open descriptors (lsof), or display a system-wide kernel parameter (sysctl fs.file-max) rather than the per-process limit, so they would not reveal the RLIMIT_NOFILE values that apply to PID 2558.
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