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Responses Re: the number of file descriptors when using POSIX semaphore  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Hi, folks,

in src/template/darwin:

# Select appropriate semaphore support. Darwin 6.0 (Mac OS X 10.2) and up
# support System V semaphores; before that we have to use POSIX semaphores,
# which are less good for our purposes because they eat a file descriptor
# per backend per max_connection slot.

To my understanding, the number of descriptors created by POSIX semaphores would be # of actual clients times max_connection. 
However, I monitor the number of open files using sysctl, and I find that kern.num_files doesn't match the result calculated by the formula that is inferred by me...

So, what would the number of file descriptors be, when using POSIX semaphore?  

Thanks!

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