Re: large number of files open...

If this is a linux system
echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:

> i'm running postgres 7.1.3 in a production environment. the database 
> itself contains on the order of 100 tables, including some complex 
> triggers, functions, and views. a few tables (on the order of 10) that 
> are frequently accessed have on the order of 100,000 rows.
>
> every now and then, traffic on the server, which is accessed publicly 
> via mod_perl (Apache::DBI) causes the machine itself to hit the kernel 
> hard limit of number of files open: 8191.
>
> this, unfortunately, crashes the machine. in a production environment 
> of this magnitude, is that a reasonable number of files to expect 
> postgres to need at any given time? is there any documentation 
> anywhere on what the number of open files depends on?
>
> -tfo
>

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