| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Simms <grim(at)argh(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] leaking FD's ? |
| Date: | 1999-10-05 04:06:48 |
| Message-ID: | 199910050406.AAA28628@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hi
>
> I am running a process that does a fair number of selects and updates but
> nothing too complex.
>
> I have the postmaster starting like such:
>
> /usr/bin/postmaster -o "-F -S 10240" -d 1 -N 128 -B 256 -D/var/lib/pgsql/data -o -F > /tmp/postmasterout 2> /tmp/postmastererr
>
> Now, looking at that, I have 256 shared memory segments, and as such,
> I would expect the number of file descriptors used by my backends to
> be fairly similar.
Each backend keeps up to 64(?) file descriptors open, expecting it may
need to access those files in the future, so it uses it as a cache.
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