| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | John Allgood <jallgood(at)the-allgoods(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, Terry Lee Tucker <terry(at)leetuckert(dot)net>, "J(dot) D(dot) Pearson" <jpearson(at)turbocorp(dot)com>, Geoffrey <esoteric(at)3times25(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Out of file-descriptors message |
| Date: | 2006-11-29 22:25:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20061129222523.GI7001@alvh.no-ip.org |
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John Allgood wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, the point is that you have the max_files_per_process setting
higher than what the kernel likes. So decrease it, and Postgres will
adjust itself to use less file descriptors by closing and reopening
files as needed.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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