Look at the -N (and -B) options of the postmaster process (for 6.5.3, maybe different for 7.x)
NH
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: jochen mader [SMTP:jochen@teg-me.de]
> Date: vendredi 8 juin 2001 13:53
> À: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Objet: [GENERAL] too many clients
>
> First: Thanks to the postgresteam for the fine work. In our corporation
> postgres has replaced adabas 11 and is doing a real good job.
>
> Second: At the moment I've got the following poblem:
> Form time to time (at the moment it's happening more and more often) I'me
> getting the following errormessage: Sorry, too man clients already connected
> Is it possible to increase the maximum number of simultanous connections?
> If not is there any way to say that one database is allowed to get more
> connections than another?
>
> Thanks in advance
> jochen
>
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> TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
