Re: Too many open files! how do I fix on linux? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alex Pilosov
Subject Re: Too many open files! how do I fix on linux?
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.10.10101262319220.7630-100000@spider.pilosoft.com
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In response to Too many open files! how do I fix on linux?  (adb <adb@Beast.COM>)
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, adb wrote:

> I understand that I need to up the max number of open files in the linux
> kernel but I'd like to know what's a good number to set it to for a high
> traffic postgres server and what's the best way to set it in linux so
> it's permanent?
I set to 16384. with about 100 clients this seems to be enough.
Best way to set it is in your local rc script (/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*local)

> (These are during some performance tests I'm running with about 40
> simultaneous clients)


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