Hello all, Recently I increased my maximum open files settings to 8192 on my RedHat Linux 6.1 database server running postgres version 6.5.3 Since then I have been observeing /proc/sys/fs/file-nr and I noticed that the system has already spiked to 8192 open files. I have also seen it sitting steady at 7356 open files. I was interested to know if this is "normal" behavior for Postgres, using "lsof" I noticed that most of the open files belonged to postmaster and most of them were not sockets. What do other people experience with "mid-size" db's? Is there anywhere I can read about tuning shared memory, open files and other paremeters for a database server running postgres? Any help is much apreciated. Serge ************
