Re: Resource temporarily unavailable

The kernel is 2.4.21-15.0.2.ELsmp. Don't know which Linux distribution,
since it's a remote server.
So you think, I should keep the connection open the whole time until the
servlet is finished, instead of opening and closing it everytime I need it?

"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> schreef in bericht
news:12612.1103945229@sss.pgh.pa.us...
> "Nico" <nicohmail-postgresql@yahoo.com> writes:
>> topframe gets data from two tables, so does the left and the right. They
>> each make a connection and a resultset for each (6 of them) query based
>> on
>> those tables. Additionally, they use a common table for metadata.
>> After a few refreshes(three or four), he gives me an error: resource
>> temporarily unavailable. How can I resolve this issue?
>
> I think you're running into a processes-per-user limit, preventing the
> postmaster from spawning more backend processes.  You can and should
> raise that limit (see your kernel documentation for details --- without
> knowing what platform you're running on, I can't help).  But you should
> also rethink the strategy of opening a separate database connection for
> each individual query.  The overhead of doing things that way is
> enormous.
>
> regards, tom lane
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