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)