Re: Tons of postgres.exe processes

>> 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 :(