On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2003, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
>
> > Ciao guys,
> >
> > I need to set a reasonable low value of timeout for inactive
> > connections, as they seem to stay up when a PHP script calls a
> > pg_pconnect on the database server.
> >
> > As its main purpose is to serve a Web application, I'd love
> > connections to get close after 10-15 seconds of inactivity.
> >
> > Is there a run-time configuration I can set in Postgres?
>
> As an addendum to my previous post, you can set the max number of requests
> an apache child will process before it is recycled, the setting is called
> MaxRequestsPerChild and if you set it to 0 (the default) then apache
> processes are never killed unless you have more than the max sitting idle.
>
> Setting it something fairly low, like 20 or 50 or 100 means that the
> connections won't last forever, as eventually that child will be killed
> off and it's connection will die.
>
>
> Also, setting StartServers to something low, like 1 will result in more
> processes getting recycled.
Man, I've got serious fat fingers today, that should be spareservers, not
start servers...
