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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Sri Mrudula Attili <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Postgresql database terminates abruptly with too many open files error
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:19:53 -0500
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Sri Mrudula Attili <[email protected]> writes:
>   We have a postgresql VDB(virtual database- Delphix) that keeps 
> terminating due "to too many open files".

What do you have max_connections set to, and how many actually-live
server processes are there typically?

> The number of allowed openfiles at OS level are 65000.

I'm suspecting that you either need to increase that, decrease
max_files_per_process (which defaults to 1000), or decrease
max_connections.

			regards, tom lane

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