Jerry Levan wrote: > The other day I attempted to connect to my 9.3.2 postgresql data base and my connection > attempts kept failing. > > I found about 100000 lines in the log file that looked like: > > ERROR: could not seek to end of file "global/12292": Too many open files > LOG: out of file descriptors: Too many open files; release and retry I think this means there is a file descriptor leak somewhere; maybe a third-party module by Apple. It might be useful to see what files are open by the offending process; in Linux you would just see ls -l /proc/{pid}/fd but I don't know if this works on Mac OS X. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general