Hello All I am getting this message in my log files for my database. LOG: out of file descriptors: Too many open files; release and retry. At some point the memomy didn't get released and the postmaster reset itself terminating all client connections. I am not sure what direction to go. I can increase the file-max in the kernel but it looks reasonably sized already . Or decrease the max_file_per_process. Has anyone on the list encountered this issue. I am running Postgres 7.4.7. Thanks John Allgood