Re: Postgresql database terminates abruptly with too many open files error

Hello,


Have you checked something like lsof to see open file descriptors to see?

Cheers,
frank

Am 14.01.25 um 13:58 schrieb Sri Mrudula Attili:
> Hello Team,
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>   We have a postgresql VDB(virtual database- Delphix) that keeps terminating due "to too many open files".
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> Below are few alerts that we could see from the postgresql.log
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> < 2025-01-14 11:37:20.724 GMT >LOG:  out of file descriptors: Too many open files in system; release and retry
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> < 2025-01-14 11:37:20.724 GMT >FATAL:  epoll_create1 failed: Too many open files in system
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> The number of allowed openfiles at OS level are 65000. even then we see these all these being utilised and causing the database to terminate.
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> Is there a way we could avoid this.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Sri
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