Brian Hirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... after i did ulimit -n > unlimited the problem joe describes went away for me.
Hmm. Postgres assumes it can use the smaller of max_files_per_process and sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX). From what you describe, I suspect that OSX's sysconf call ignores the "ulimit -n" restriction and thus encourages us to think we can use more than we really can. If that's the correct explanation then the LOG messages are just a cosmetic problem (as long as kern.maxfiles comfortably exceeds max_connections times ulimit -n). I wonder whether we should also probe getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE)? Anyone have an idea whether that returns different limits than sysconf()? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly