Dmitri Girski <mitek17@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am running a PostgreSQL server 8.3.5 with a pretty much standard config. > The web application server which runs Apache 1.3/PHP2.9 has an intermittent > problem: > pg_connect takes exactly 3.0 seconds. The usual connection time is 0.0045. > The long request happens at approximate rate 1:100. Sounds a lot like a dropped-packets problem. The exact timing would be explained if that is the retransmit timeout in your client-side TCP stack. If that's what it is, you need some network engineers, not us database geeks ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance