jade wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running postgresql - 7.1 on Redhat 2.2.16-22 kernel.
> Sometimes this the system becomes totally unusable with
> "VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached" error? The system is setup to have
> 4096 file descriptor as default. I was wondering how many file descriptor
> does postgres open per backend process?
One for each file in your database, one for the communication's socket, etc.
Your best bet is to add more files.
