Re: too-may-open-files log file entries when vauuming under solaris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:17 PM
> To: Raschick, Hartmut
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] too-may-open-files log file entries when
> vauuming under solaris
>
> "Raschick, Hartmut" <Hartmut(dot)Raschick(at)keymile(dot)com> writes:
> > recently we have seen a lot of occurrences of "out of file
> descriptors:
> > Too many open files; release and retry" in our postgres log files,
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> > in the platform specific notes (e.g. have u/limit at 256 maximum).
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> TBH this sounds like unfounded speculation
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> regards, tom lane

Hmmm... FWIW, we've compiled some more info to illustrate the problem. Starting w/a sniplet from the Solaris 10 "fopen" man page, test programs showing the "difference" between open and fopen calls under Solaris, a postgres log file w/extended logging and a diff-file of that fd.c to show how the addt'l logs were produced. I hope this makes it somewhat clearer, i.e. no system-wide, but a per-process topic and related to that Solaris 32-bit ABI backwards compatibility... surely not a world-wide problem, one would agree. Nevertheless, we'd though it prudent to at least mention it.
Btw, here's what Oracle has to say: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/stdio-256-136698.html
I hope the 15K attachment gets through...

cheers,
hardy

Hartmut Raschick
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