Re: PostgreSQL Connections?

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Ashish Karalkar <ashish_karalkar(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: slony <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Connections?
Date: 2007-01-10 23:14:53
Message-ID: 1168470893.2411.4.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 21:48 -0800, Ashish Karalkar wrote:
> Hello All,
> I am running PostgresSQL 8.2 on Redhat Linux 4.
> When I look for the processes that are using postgres
> using ps aux|more
> I got lots of Idle processes with servers own IP
> address. Can anybody please tell me why this is
> happening.
>
> Also there are multiple processes for my single
> client(same IP) of which maximum are idle. are these
> processes means connection or there is a single
> connection starting many processes.
>

You probably have clients accessing postgresql and holding the
connection open, perhaps in a connection pool. Do you have web
applications accessing the database?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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