Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster options, process spawning, logging, etc. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster options, process spawning, logging, etc.
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Msg-id 24417.945355239@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster options, process spawning, logging, etc.  (Tim Holloway <mtsinc@southeast.net>)
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Tim Holloway <mtsinc@southeast.net> writes:
> 1. Matthew's problem sounds an awful lot like what's being reported
> by Lucio Andres Perez in v6.4.2. Maybe some kind of bug in detecting
> and handling over-the-limit backends.

6.4.* didn't really have any check/defense against spawning more
backends than it had resources for.  6.5 does check and enforce the
maxbackends limit.  It's certainly possible that Matthew's running into
some kind of resource-exhaustion problem, but I doubt that it's just
the number of backends that's at issue, except indirectly.  (He could
be running out of swap space or filetable slots, possibly.)
        regards, tom lane


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