Re: [GENERAL] General Performance questions

Netstat shows live connections every 2 seconds with -c

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:12 AM
To: Delao, Darryl W
Cc: 'pgsql-novice@postgresql.org'; 'pgsql-general@postgresql.org'
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] General Performance questions

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:14, Delao, Darryl W wrote:
> I have been monitoring netstat -c on my db server for a few days now.
> I am trying to determine if when I see a postgres connection, if that
> is indeed just 1 connection or if it is a bunch of connections tied up
> in 1.  The other day I had postgres set to a limit of 128 connections,
> and that was reached.  But at no time while monitoring netstat -c did
> I see 128 connections!  At this point, im assuming that netstat-c does
> not provide an accurate count of current connections.  Anyone have any
> thoughts on this?

Is there a reason why you're trying to use netstat rather than the
pg_stat_activity system view?

http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/monitoring-stats
.html

Cheers,

Neil

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