On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >6184 p2 R 0:00 /usr/local/bin/postgres localhost postgres adcept SELECT >20964 p6 S 0:00 su - postgres >23112 p4 S 0:00 su - postgres >27664 p2 R 0:03 /usr/local/bin/postmaster -i > >bash: /bin/ps: Too many open files in system I was getting this recently on a production server, I solved it by increasing the number of file descriptors per process in the kernel. Do a ulimit -a to see what your limits are. Lincoln -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lincoln Spiteri Manufacturing Systems STMicroelectronics, Malta e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ************