Re: to much process

Quoting Didier Bretin <dbr@informactis.com>:

> Hello,
>
>   I use postgres with my servlet on a linux box. Sometimes when I do
> a 'ps auxf' I saw that I have a lot (about 20) of postgres process like
> this:
> postgres 19025  0.0  0.7 31124  988 ?        SN    2000   4:59
> /cassiope/usr/local/postgresql-7.0/bin/postmaster -D
> /cassiope/var/pgdata2 -p 5430 -i
> postgres 25749  0.0  2.1 31472 2724 ?        SN   09:18   0:00  \_
> /cassiope/usr/local/postgresql-7.0/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 admintp
> truckplus_1 idle
> postgres 26528  0.0  2.3 31680 2976 ?        SN   10:00   0:00  \_
> /cassiope/usr/local/postgresql-7.0/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 admintp
> truckplus_1 idle
> postgres 26663  0.0  2.1 31492 2788 ?        SN   10:09   0:00  \_
> /cassiope/usr/local/postgresql-7.0/bin/postgres 127.0.0.1 admintp
> truckplus_1 idle
>
> And sometimes when the number of process is so big, I can't connect to
> postgresql with jdbc :o(.
> Apparently, the connections opened are not close by the garbage
> collector ...
>
> Is there a solution to avoid such problem ?

Is your application calling the close() method in Connection? The garbage
collector will never close a connection.

Also, you can not guarantee when garbage collection will occur (sometimes it
never will). It all depends on how the JVM & Garbage Collector is implemented.

Peter

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