Re: to much process

On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Didier Bretin wrote:

> Apparently, the connections opened are not close by the garbage
> collector ...
>
> Is there a solution to avoid such problem ?

There are several solutions:

* Make postgresql start with a higher number of possible processes:

postmaster -i -B 200 -N 100

This won't get to the underlying cause of your problem, but it may
alleviate the symptoms enough to buy you time to fix the problem.

* Ensure that you close the connections every time after you open them:

Connection con = null;
Statement stmt = null;
try
{
con = DriverManager.getConnection (url, myUser, myPassword);
stmt = con.createStatement();
// The rest of your JDBC code that actually does work goes here...
}
catch (SQLException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
throw e;
}
finally
{
if (con != null)
con.close();
}

This is safe, but has a performance penalty associated with creating the
new connection and associated postgres process every time.

* Use a connection pooling mechanism like PoolMan:
<http://poolman.sourceforge.net/index.shtml>

Using connection pooling will lead to higher performance for your
database application.

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