On 9/3/07, Anoo Sivadasan Pillai <aspillai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Sorry for the long mail and Thank you for the quick response, > My problem is that our server shuts down unexpectedly, the settings are > max_connections=1024,shared_buffers = 32MB for the machine. The > following is the log snippet > 2007-08-15 15:44:10 LOG: could not receive data from client: No > connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. > 2007-08-15 15:44:10 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2007-08-15 15:44:17 LOG: received fast shutdown request > 2007-08-15 15:44:17 LOG: aborting any active transactions > 2007-08-15 15:44:17 FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator > command > 2007-08-15 15:44:17 FATAL: the database system is shutting down > 2007-08-15 15:44:17 LOG: shutting down > > Any clues? Sounds like you're being hit by the Out of Memory (oom) killer in your kernel maybe? how many connections do you have when this happens? I think you might need to look at connection pooling. 1024 connections is a LOT of connections. How much memory does your server have, btw, and what version of pgsql and what os are you running this on? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend