On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > well you can hopefully reduce connections from jdbc pooling then. The > fact that the connections are idle is good. > > The problem you run into is what happens when things go into > "overload" I.e. when the db server starts to slow down, more of those > idle connections become not idle. If all 300 are then waiting on the > db server, it will slow to a crawl and eventually fall over. +1. Try to monitor your connections, for example like this while true; do echo -n "$(date): " psql -XAt -c "select count(1) from pg_stat_activity" sleep 1 done > activity.log and its correlation with slowdowns. -- Kind regards, Sergey Konoplev PostgreSQL Consultant and DBA http://www.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp +1 (415) 867-9984, +7 (901) 903-0499, +7 (988) 888-1979 gray.ru@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
