Re: connections slowing everything down?

Hi

>> # ps -ef | grep idle | wc -l
>> 87
[...]

>> 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?
>
> Dependant on how much memory you have in your system, yes.  You can fix
> the constant use of memory by idle connections by adjusting the
> child_life_time setting in your pgpool.conf file.  The default if 5
> minutes which a bit long.  Try dropping that down to 20 or 30 seconds.

We have 32GBs.  If I get it to close the connections faster, will that
actually help?  Is there a way i can figure it out?


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