Re: too many clients already

> On Apr 2, 2020, at 9:06 AM, Abraham, Danny <danny_abraham@bmc.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Will appreciate a hint here.
>
> Running on a big and stressed AIX platform and receiving lots of "CDTFATAL:  sorry, too many clients already"
> and transient difficulty to log in.
>
> Happens on all PG versions (Tested 9.5,10.4,11.5)
>
> Big installation: max_connections is 1200,  shared_buffers is 2GB
>
> But .. select count(*) from pg_stat_activity   is only 66.
>
> Thanks
>
> Danny
>
>
Lots of idle, kept-alive clients?  Do you have a connection pooler (e.g. pg-bouncer)?