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From: Frank Lanitz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Postgresql database terminates abruptly with too many open files error
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:39:06 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
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Hello,


Have you checked something like lsof to see open file descriptors to see?

Cheers,
frank

Am 14.01.25 um 13:58 schrieb Sri Mrudula Attili:
> 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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