Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:25:38 -0700
From: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
To: Mike Diehl <jdiehl@sandia.gov>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ran out of connections
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:08:35PM -0700, Mike Diehl wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Twice this week, I've come to work to find my Postgres server out of 
> connections... effectively freezing my web server.
> 
> Today, before I rebooted the entire system, I did a ps -auxw and kept the 
> file to study.  I didn't find too many clients running.  But I did find a 
> whole LOT of postgres processes running, idle.  BTW, one of the postgres 
> processes was doing a vacuum analyze.  I'm running 7.2.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this?  The out put of the ps command can be 
> seen at http://dominion.dyndns.org/~mdiehl/ps.txt

Are you using PHP by chance? I've seen this behavior under Apache+PHP
before. My "fix" (workaround rather) was to disable persistent
connections.

-Roberto

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