On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:45:15AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> A few days back the load increased on our database server to the point
> where it could not get enough file handles. This causes the backends to
> crash, get restarted only to crash again, on and on.
>
> We fixed it by bumping kern.maxfiles, but was just wondering if this is
> a scenario that PostgreSQL should handle more gracefully?
We certainly go great lengths to prevent this problem ... what version
is this?
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