On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:40 +0100, Janning Vygen wrote: > Am Dienstag, 1. Februar 2005 14:18 schrieben Sie: > > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 09:38 +0100, Janning Vygen wrote: > > > Does anybody has any hints to solve this problem? > > > > This is a bit of a non-solution, but it is what worked for us. We > > simply stopped using pconnect() altogether. This seemed to have solved > > connection timeouts and delays. Our site gets 500k page hits per day > > without any problems. > > hm. i didn't get the point. Do you mean you don't use persistent connections > just plain pg_connect instead of pg_pconnect?? Exactly. pg_pconnect() is (or was the last time I tried it) broken in PHP. We were constantly getting connections that wouldn't close, and sometimes not time out. Ever since we gave up on them, we've had no problems. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Murtagh Enterprise Systems Administrator ISR / Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada Tel.: (514) 398-3122 Fax: (514) 398-2017