Re: Too-many-files errors on OS X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > I had to hack on the code some more for FreeBSD:
> > (the realloc call needed the multiplication).  I ran this same code
> > on UnixWare.
> 
> I feel like a moron, having missed that.  Probably explains the "bad
> file number" error I was getting on AIX, too...

And sure enough, that was it.  Got the same results on AIX 5 as on other
systems:

kbrown@m048:~$ ./eatfds /usr/lib/librpm.so.0 /usr/lib/librpmbuild.so.0
dup() failed: Too many open files
Was able to use 1997 file descriptors
dup() failed: Too many open files
Was able to use 1997 file descriptors after opening 2 shared libs
kbrown@m048:~$ uname -a
AIX m048 1 5 0001063A4C00



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Kevin Brown                          kevin@sysexperts.com