Henry <henry@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > However, once I start real processing and there's lots of updates and > selects occurring, file descriptor usage (by many Pg procs) will > gleefully claw it's way up to 400k (on the busy cluster master node) > and eventually bludgeon my arbitrary 500k limit. Each Pg process eats > about 991 fd's. You can adjust that with max_files_per_process. I wouldn't make it too small though. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general