Re: PHP + Postgres: More than 1000 postmasters produce - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gavin M. Roy
Subject Re: PHP + Postgres: More than 1000 postmasters produce
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Msg-id 403657E5.6070609@ehpg.net
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In response to Re: PHP + Postgres: More than 1000 postmasters produce  ("Gellert, Andre" <AGellert@ElectronicPartner.de>)
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your pgsql backend must be able to accommodate the max persistent
connections * the max number of apache daemons.

the php pgsql.max_persistent setting is per apache daemon.

HTH,

Gavin

Gellert, Andre wrote:

>Hi Richard,
>
>
>
>>Actually it's probably 8kB each = 16MB, but thats between
>>*all* the backends.
>>You probably want something a fair bit larger than this. Go to
>>  http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/index.php
>>and read the section on performance tuning and on the annotated
>>postgresql.conf
>>
>>
>
>I know this page and I corrected the values according to these hints,
>but because of the immense problems ,i set them back to the same
>values we use on the old servers.
>
>
>
>>You can probably put vaccum_mem back up.
>>
>>
>
>Because it is not rush hour now and i am leaving office for 3 days, I do
>this on tuesday , to have a chance to roll back if errors occur.
>
>
>
>>So - you let PHP open persistent connections to PG and have
>>no limit to the
>>number of different connections open at any one time?
>>Turn the persistent connections off - you'll probably find
>>your problems go away.
>>
>>
>
>I have done this before, but when i remember right, the only effect is,
>that every second dozens of postmaster processes started and closed, because
>the connection is thrown away. This helps for now, as i can see on "low
>traffic" , but when I tried first, we had heavy load just by starting this
>large number of processes. There are 5-10 php skripts running per second, in
>peeks maybe even twice or more.
>This is a problem for the system , when for every process postmaster must be
>started, or am I wrong ?
>
>bye
>Andre
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