Re: Excessive (?) Pg file descriptor use when partitioning - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Excessive (?) Pg file descriptor use when partitioning
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Msg-id 13397.1243117902@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Excessive (?) Pg file descriptor use when partitioning  (Henry <henry@zen.co.za>)
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Henry <henry@zen.co.za> writes:
> However,  once I start real processing and there's lots of updates and
> selects occurring, file descriptor usage (by many Pg procs) will
> gleefully claw it's way up to 400k (on the busy cluster master node)
> and eventually bludgeon my arbitrary 500k limit.  Each Pg process eats
> about 991 fd's.

You can adjust that with max_files_per_process.  I wouldn't make it
too small though.

            regards, tom lane

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