Postgresql database terminates abruptly with too many open files error

From: Sri Mrudula Attili <sri(at)ebi(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Postgresql database terminates abruptly with too many open files error
Date: 2025-01-14 12:58:44
Message-ID: 709d5fa0-85e1-40a2-a6a4-11040f4e5b62@ebi.ac.uk
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Hello Team,

 We have a postgresql VDB(virtual database- Delphix) that keeps
terminating due "to too many open files".

Below are few alerts that we could see from the postgresql.log

< 2025-01-14 11:37:20.724 GMT >LOG:  out of file descriptors: Too many
open files in system; release and retry

< 2025-01-14 11:37:20.724 GMT >FATAL:  epoll_create1 failed: Too many
open files in system

The number of allowed openfiles at OS level are 65000. even then we see
these all these being utilised and causing the database to terminate.

Is there a way we could avoid this.

Thanks,

Sri

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