Re: persistent vs. non-persistent

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You are correct.  It is not max per Apache, but max per child process.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Joerdens" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pgsql-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] persistent vs. non-persistent


> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:56:37PM -0400, Mitch Vincent wrote:
> > I'm not sure about the internal workings, I see what you mean and will
await
> > your finding with great interest!
> >
> > -Mitch
>
> [ . . . ]
> > > I don't understand why apache (or PHP) doesn't see that it has a
> > persistent
> > > database connection open to use.
> > >
> > > I'm checking the PHP PGSQL extensions at this moment.
> > > More info later....
> > >
> > > Saludos.... ;-)
>
> I keep having problems too; I think because I never quite managed to
> figure out the mechanism either. Sometime last year someone mentioned
> that the php.ini parameters
>
> pgsql.max_links
> pgsql.max_persistent
>
> are meant to be understood as /per Apache child/; so if you have, say, 5
> Apache children waiting for a request, and
>
> pgsql.max_persistent = 2
>
> you could have up to 10 open connections. If an apache child which does
> not have an open connection gets a request, it will open a new
> connection, obviously. So if 4 of the 5 Apache children have open
> connections, but the 5th gets the next request, a new connection will be
> opened. I am not sure about what happens when a child which already has
> an open connection gets a new request. Hypothesis: It depends on the
> database. Say you have 3 distinct databases on your server and your
> php.ini parameter
>
> pgsql.max_persistent = 2
>
> Now let's say you have 10 open Apache children, each of which has a
> connection to databases #1 and #2. Now requests to databases #1 and #2
> will be answered, but not to #3: You'll get the error message:
>
> Warning: PostgreSQL: Too many open persistent links (2)
>
> My tests seem to confirm this.
>
> It would seem to follow that you only need as many persistent
> connections per Apache child as you have databases from which you want
> to serve http requests.
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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