On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, adb wrote: > I understand that I need to up the max number of open files in the linux > kernel but I'd like to know what's a good number to set it to for a high > traffic postgres server and what's the best way to set it in linux so > it's permanent? I set to 16384. with about 100 clients this seems to be enough. Best way to set it is in your local rc script (/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*local) > (These are during some performance tests I'm running with about 40 > simultaneous clients)