Re: [GENERAL] leaking FD's ?

> Hi
>
> I am running a process that does a fair number of selects and updates but
> nothing too complex.
>
> I have the postmaster starting like such:
>
> /usr/bin/postmaster -o "-F -S 10240" -d 1 -N 128 -B 256 -D/var/lib/pgsql/data -o -F > /tmp/postmasterout 2>
/tmp/postmastererr
>
> Now, looking at that, I have 256 shared memory segments, and as such,
> I would expect the number of file descriptors used by my backends to
> be fairly similar.

Each backend keeps up to 64(?) file descriptors open, expecting it may
need to access those files in the future, so it uses it as a cache.


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