Bradley Kieser wrote:
Hmm, not entirely true. You may well only see the error in the process
itself.
You're telling me that the kernel could be running out of file
descriptors and I wouldn't see a message regarding this in the kernel
logs? I don't believe that is possible.
Geoffrey wrote:
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
John Allgood wrote:
Hey Tom
I assume that if it is the kernel running out of descriptors that I
would get the messages in dmesg. This message only appears in the log
file for that database.
Yeah, the point is that you have the max_files_per_process setting
higher than what the kernel likes. So decrease it, and Postgres will
adjust itself to use less file descriptors by closing and reopening
files as needed.
I work with the original poster and wanted to make sure the problem
here is clear. The 'out of file descriptors' message is coming from
Postgresql, not the kernel. Thus, it doesn't make sense to me that
the max_files_per_process setting is too high. I would think we need
to increase it so that Postgresql will stop generating these errors.
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Until later, Geoffrey
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