Reproduced here too. (Solaris 2.6)
>On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Daryl W. Dunbar wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running 6.4.2 on Sparc/Solaris 2.7. Occasionally (far more
>> often than I would like - which is never :), the postmaster refuses
>> connections. Upon investigation, there are 48 postmaster processes
>> running. If one kills the parent and restarts, all is well for some
>> time. Attached is a chunk of output from postmaster, unfortunately
>> it does not timestamp, so it is hard to see when what happened. I'm
>> most disturbed about the device space message. None of my disks are
>> even close to full, nor have been...
>>
>> Help! Advice? Ways to gather further info? Is this a Solaris 7
>> thing?
>
>We just got our Solaris 7 CDs, and I'm going to be installing it on one of
>our quieter machines in coming weeks, but...
>
>have you tried doing a 'truss -p' on the parent process?
Increasing # of semaphores should solve the problem, I guess. I'm
going to try that as soon as I find the way to increase semaphores.
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Tatsuo Ishii