Number of open files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Alliban
Subject Number of open files
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Msg-id 95bofm$sop$1@news.tht.net
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Responses Re: Number of open files  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi,

I am having problems with the number of open files on Redhat 6.1. The value
of /proc/sys/fs/file-max is 4096 (the default), but this value is reached
with about 50 ODBC connections. Increasing the file-max value would only
temporarily improve matters because on the long-term I expect to have 500+
active connections. How comes there are so many open files per connection?
Is there any way to decrease the number of open files, so that I don't have
to increase file-max to immense proportions?

Thanks,
Mark.



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