Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:41:09 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Bryan Buecking <buecking@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: CPU bound at 99%
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:31:01 +0900
Bryan Buecking <buecking@gmail.com> wrote:

> at any given time there is about 5-6 postgres in startup 
> (ps auxwww | grep postgres | grep startup | wc -l)
> 
> about 2300 connections in idle 
> (ps auxwww | grep postgres | idle)
> 
> and loads of "FATAL: sorry, too many clients already" being logged.
> 
> The server that connects to the db is an apache server using
> persistent connections. MaxClients is 2048 thus the high number of
> connections needed. Application was written in PHP using the Pear DB
> class.

Sounds like your pooler isn't reusing connections properly.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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