Re: Tons of postgres.exe processes

> Hi, so I installed native 8.03 on my XP SP2 box - just for
> testing, I need only support for about 3-4 simult. connections.
>
> However I installed it and open the Task manager - and see at
> least a hundred instances of postgres.exe process in there...
> And I can't find a way to remedy this. I have no running
> connections so technically it's redundant to have that amount
> of processes.

That's certainly not supposed to happen.

What kind of application are you using? Are you 100% sure that it
actually closes the connections as it should? The situation sounds a bit
like a runaway connection pooling or such thing...

If you run a "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity" query, does it show up all
the processes as active backends?


> Also I started experiening apps failing to start, show menus
> or init other controls properly when running postgres.
> Otherwise I could connect with the GUI admin and make a db
> and a table in it...

That would be the classic symptoms of a windows system running out of
memory...


//Magnus