Re: "Too many open files in system" error

2009/8/12 Jonatan Evald Buus <jonatan(dot)buus(at)cellpointmobile(dot)com>:
> Greetings,
> We're seeing numerous "LOG:  out of file descriptors: Too many open files in
> system; release and retry" entries as well as quite a few "LOG:  could not
> open temporary statistics file "global/pgstat.tmp": Too many open files in
> system"
> Much more alarming however, we're seeing errors such as:
> FATAL:  could not open file "global/pg_database": Too many open files in
> system
> ERROR:  could not open relation 1663/2219053/2601: Too many open files in
> system
>
> kern.maxfiles is currently set to 12328 and "sysctl -a | grep
> kern.openfiles" showed over 10.000 open files prior to a reboot.
> After the reboot kern.openfiles quickly increased from less than 200 to over

Did you request about kern.maxfiles?

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Emanuel Calvo Franco
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