The performance monitoring (perfmon) metrics must be enabled or you must set LC_PERFM to debug.
The mbatchd daemon can log a large number of files in a short period when you submit a large number of jobs to LSF. You can view the remaining file descriptors at any time.
Applies to UNIX hosts only.
The free, used, and total amount of file descriptors display.
On AIX5, 64-bit hosts, if the file descriptor limit has never been changed, the maximum value displays: 9223372036854775797.