I wrote: >You are right. I just did a quick test and depending on the handle type these >limits are quite high. I could create 5 millions events or 4 millions >semaphores or 3,5 millions mutexes before the system returned error 1816 >ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA "Not enough quota is available to process this >command.". [Does some further testing] The limit is high, but nonetheless Postgres is running out of handles. Setting <max_connections> to 10000 and starting postgres _without_ any connection consumes 40000 handles. This correspodends to the 4 Postgres processes running after the server was started. Every new connection consumes another 10000 handles. I don't know the Postgres code involved, but it seems that every backend consumes at least <max_connections> handles. Hence increasing this value will have the opposite effect once a certain threshold is met. Rainer ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly