connections slowing everything down?

Hi

# ps -ef | grep idle | wc -l
87
# ps -ef | grep SELECT | wc -l
5

I have 2 web servers which connect to PGPool which connects to our
postgres db. I have noticed that idle connections seem to take up CPU
and RAM (according to top). Could this in any way cause things to slow
down?

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Adrian Moisey
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