I have a freeBSD with postgres too and I believe I had to tune the
kernel for this question
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > I have a server running FreeBSD 4.7 and postgres 7.2.4 and when I
> > set "max_connections" to a value greater than 47, I am unable to
> > connect to the database server. I need to be able to raise this
> > number much higher because every site on this server runs postgres
> > and at peak times this limit is reached and causes problems. The
> > server has 2 gigs of memory. I would appreciate any suggestion.
>
> What's the output in /var/log/pgsql ? -sc
>
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