Re: Tons of postgres.exe processes

Stan Vassilev wrote:

>>> Hi, so I installed native 8.03 on my XP SP2 box - just for
>>> testing, I need only support for about 3-4 simult. connections.
>>>
>>> However I installed it and open the Task manager - and see at
>>> least a hundred instances of postgres.exe process in there...
>>> And I can't find a way to remedy this. I have no running
>>> connections so technically it's redundant to have that amount
>>> of processes.
>>
>>
>> That's certainly not supposed to happen.
>>
>> What kind of application are you using? Are you 100% sure that it
>> actually closes the connections as it should? The situation sounds a bit
>> like a runaway connection pooling or such thing...
>>
>> If you run a "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity" query, does it show up all
>> the processes as active backends?
>
>
> no idea, psql doesn't want to accept my password... while pgAdmin
> connects fine with the same.... no idea what's going on anymore. can I
> run sql query from pgadmin? how?
>
>>
>>> Also I started experiening apps failing to start, show menus
>>> or init other controls properly when running postgres.
>>> Otherwise I could connect with the GUI admin and make a db
>>> and a table in it...
>>
>>
>> That would be the classic symptoms of a windows system running out of
>> memory...
>
>
> The processes appear to take 60kb RAM (most), and I don't have
> anything taking a lot of RAM (I have 1GB ram). So I guess an x-file
> again :(

Is there any way that you might have 2 postgresql processes running? Say
one cygwin process and one win32?
Just curious. That might explain why psql is not letting you connect,
because it is trying to connect to a different one.

Anyway, for pgAdmin, there is a button that looks like a pencil which
lets you execute arbitrary SQL requests. Or it should be under
"Tools/Query Tool" if you want it from the menu.

John
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