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From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Mike Diehl <jdiehl@sandia.gov>
To: Roberto Mello <rmello@cc.usu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ran out of connections
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:25:55 -0800
Message-ID: <20021205002555.B8C4A103C6@polaris.pinpointresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021204234919.CA46678E6@dominion.dyndns.org>
References: <20021204220457.94E2778E6@dominion.dyndns.org>
	<20021204222538.GD30716@cc.usu.edu>
	<20021204234919.CA46678E6@dominion.dyndns.org>

Doing anything unusual? Forking processes, opening multiple connections 
within a single CGI?

Have you seen any evidence that a process that opens a connection is failing 
to complete normally?

-Steve


On Wednesday 04 December 2002 3:52 pm, Mike Diehl wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 December 2002 03:25 pm, Roberto Mello wrote:
>      > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:08:35PM -0700, Mike Diehl wrote:
>      > > 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.
>
> Nope.  I'm using Perl and cgi.  I've got some perl that runs via cron, and
> some more that runs via apache.  I'm not even using ModPerl.
>
> It did occur to me that since some of my scripts communicate with other
> devices, that I may have some IO blocking, or zombies, but the ps output
> didn't indicate that.  I can't see that many scripts running.  Usually, I
> see one postgres process for each script/cgi that is running.  Not in this
> case.



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