Re: CPU bound at 99%

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:31:01 +0900
Bryan Buecking <buecking(at)gmail(dot)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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