I've had quite the same thing on a busy server, it was due to a lack of
filehandles.
Mike Field wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> My php website interacts with a postrgres database, and every now and then,
> postgres just seems to crash. A simple restart of postmaster fixes the
> problem, until it crashes again. However, I have no idea EXACTLY when it
> crashes (what the website users are doing at the time, if anything) and WHY.
> If someone has any ideas as to why it might be crashing, or how I can find
> out why, and what to do about it, I would appreciate the help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
> mike@fieldco.com
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Mathieu Arnold