Re: [HACKERS] Postmaster options, process spawning, logging, etc.

Ah. I hadn't noticed they were that far back. I've passed your news on
to our distraught friends in Columbia with a suggestion to try the 6.5.3
RPM.

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Tim Holloway <mtsinc(at)southeast(dot)net> writes:
> > 1. Matthew's problem sounds an awful lot like what's being reported
> > by Lucio Andres Perez in v6.4.2. Maybe some kind of bug in detecting
> > and handling over-the-limit backends.
>
> 6.4.* didn't really have any check/defense against spawning more
> backends than it had resources for. 6.5 does check and enforce the
> maxbackends limit. It's certainly possible that Matthew's running into
> some kind of resource-exhaustion problem, but I doubt that it's just
> the number of backends that's at issue, except indirectly. (He could
> be running out of swap space or filetable slots, possibly.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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