| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jerry Levan <jerry(dot)levan(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Thousands of errors...what happened? |
| Date: | 2014-03-24 16:43:23 |
| Message-ID: | 20140324164323.GB9567@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Jerry Levan wrote:
> The other day I attempted to connect to my 9.3.2 postgresql data base and my connection
> attempts kept failing.
>
> I found about 100000 lines in the log file that looked like:
>
> ERROR: could not seek to end of file "global/12292": Too many open files
> LOG: out of file descriptors: Too many open files; release and retry
I think this means there is a file descriptor leak somewhere; maybe a
third-party module by Apple. It might be useful to see what files are
open by the offending process; in Linux you would just see
ls -l /proc/{pid}/fd
but I don't know if this works on Mac OS X.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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