Re: Out of file-descriptors message - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From John Allgood
Subject Re: Out of file-descriptors message
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Msg-id 456E03C9.6070204@the-allgoods.net
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In response to Re: Out of file-descriptors message  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hey Tom

    I assume that if it is the kernel running out of descriptors that I
would get the messages in dmesg. This message only appears in the log
file for that database.

Thanks

Tom Lane wrote:
> John Allgood <john@turbocorp.com> writes:
>
>> 2006-11-29 14:57:51 [3823] LOG:  out of file descriptors: Too many open
>> files; release and retry
>>
>
> Consider reducing PG's max_files_per_process setting.  Postgres itself
> will usually not have a serious problem when you've run the kernel out
> of file descriptors, but everything else on the machine will :-(
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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