Re: idle processes

On Saturday 14 August 2004 01:01 pm, CSN wrote:
> 'ps axu' shows:
>
> postgres  1249  0.0  0.7 20200 7296 ?        S
> 11:50   0:00 postgres: user1 database1 127.0.0.1 idle
> postgres  1251  0.0  0.6 20196 7036 ?        S
> 11:50   0:00 postgres: user1 database1 127.0.0.1 idle
> postgres  1264  0.0  0.3 19936 3200 ?        S
> 11:50   0:00 postgres: user1 database1 127.0.0.1 idle
> postgres  1267  0.0  0.2 19936 2992 ?        S
> 11:50   0:00 postgres: user1 database1 127.0.0.1 idle
> postgres  1274  0.0  0.2 19936 2996 ?        S
> 11:50   0:00 postgres: user1 database1 127.0.0.1 idle
> postgres  1275  0.0  0.2 19936 3000 ?        S
> 11:50   0:00 postgres: user1 database1 127.0.0.1 idle
>
> Any idea why these processes are hanging around (for
> about 20 minutes)? There's not any other query hogging
> that database. Will they eventually timeout?
>

Are you using persistant connections? For example, with PHP are you using
pg_pconnect instead of pg_connect?

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