Re: Resource temporarily unavailable

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ben-Nes Michael" <miki(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il>
Cc: "postgresql" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Resource temporarily unavailable
Date: 2004-10-27 15:29:39
Message-ID: 20539.1098890979@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Ben-Nes Michael" <miki(at)canaan(dot)co(dot)il> writes:
> From time to time i get the following error:
> could not fork new process for connection: Resource temporarily unavailable

This generally means that the kernel has run out of memory.

> my conf is:
> max_connections = 400

Perhaps that is overly optimistic for your available hardware.

regards, tom lane

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