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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > looking in /var/log/messages, I'm seeing the following just before the
> > crashes:
>
> > Aug 23 12:33:47 pgsql syslogd: /dev/console: Too many open files in system: Too many open files in system
> > Aug 23 12:33:47 pgsql syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
> > Aug 23 12:33:47 pgsql /kernel: file: table is full
>
> That sure looks like you'd better tweak your kernel settings ... but
> offhand I don't see how it could lead to "stuck spinlock" errors.
> What do you get from gdb backtraces on the corefiles?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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