Re: large number of files open...

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 16:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> In any case you probably don't want to set the per-backend limit much
> less than maybe 40-50 files.  If that times the allowed number of
> backends is more than, or even real close to, your kernel filetable
> size, you'd best increase the filetable size.

What are the implications of raising this limit (on a typical UNIX
variant, such as Linux 2.4 or FreeBSD)?

Just curious...

TIA

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