Re: refusing connections based on load ...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: refusing connections based on load ...
Date: 2001-04-23 23:51:38
Message-ID: 24201.988069898@sss.pgh.pa.us
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> sendmail does it now, and, apparently relatively portable across OSs ...

sendmail expects to be root. It's unlikely (and very undesirable) that
postgres will be installed with adequate privileges to read /dev/kmem,
which is what it'd take to run the sendmail loadaverage code on most
platforms...

regards, tom lane

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