Re: Too much clients connected to the PostgreSQL Database

From: "Kevin Grittner" <kgrittn(at)mail(dot)com>
To: "Rodrigo Pereira da Silva" <rodrigo(at)paripassu(dot)com(dot)br>,pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Too much clients connected to the PostgreSQL Database
Date: 2012-10-29 20:58:04
Message-ID: 20121029205805.306890@gmx.com
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Rodrigo Pereira da Silva wrote:

> We have about 10 web applications deployed in a Tomcat 7.0
> accessing a Postgresql 9.1 database. We do use connection pooling.
> We have the max_connections parameter set to 200 connections,
> however, we are reaching the max connections sporadically(about 4
> time/day).

What is the pooler's maxActive setting? (It should be less than the
PostgreSQL max_connections setting.)

BTW, 200 seems alwfully high unless a *really* high end machine.  You
may have fewer timeouts if you avoid swamping the server with a
"thundering herd" of requests.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Number_Of_Database_Connections

-Kevin

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