On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:33:08PM -0400, jallgood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. PostgreSQL could be using somewhere around as much as max_files_per_process * ( max_connections + 5 ), so make sure that matches file-max (the + 5 is because there are non-connection processes such as the bgwriter). If that looks OK, some file descriptors might have been left around from the crash... I know this can happen with shared memory segments. It normally won't happen with file descriptors, but perhaps it is possible. If that's the case, a reboot would certainly fix it. BTW, you should upgrade to the latest 7.4 release. -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
