Hello, I'm still suffering with my Drupal 7.2 site and PostgreSQL 8.4.8 every evening, for example right now. I have tried different combinations for /etc/pgbouncer.ini - for example now I have: [databases] pref = host=/tmp user=pref password=XXX dbname=pref [pgbouncer] logfile = /var/log/pgbouncer.log pidfile = /var/run/pgbouncer/pgbouncer.pid ;listen_addr = 127.0.0.1 listen_port = 6432 unix_socket_dir = /tmp auth_type = md5 auth_file = /var/lib/pgsql/data/global/pg_auth pool_mode = session ; If server was used more recently that this many seconds ago, ; skip the check query. Value 0 may or may not run in immidiately. server_check_delay = 10 max_client_conn = 200 default_pool_size = 20 log_connections = 1 log_disconnections = 1 log_pooler_errors = 1 I have moved Drupal 7.2 and all my PHP scripts (mostly displaying stats for the players of my card game) to use the /tmp and port 6432 (instead of 5432). During off-peak hours the site works ok. But on evenings everything stops. For example pg_top shows (why is everything idle?): last pid: 5215; load avg: 0.65, 1.64, 2.13; up 0+00:46:48 20:16:37 22 processes: 22 sleeping CPU states: 12.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.3% system, 87.4% idle, 0.1% iowait Memory: 1187M used, 2737M free, 34M buffers, 611M cached Swap: 7812M free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 3303 postgres 16 0 1170M 137M sleep 3:29 10.92% 20.16% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5045 postgres 18 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:49 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5057 postgres 16 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:37 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5000 postgres 16 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:34 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5025 postgres 18 0 1169M 150M sleep 0:31 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5030 postgres 16 0 1171M 152M sleep 0:29 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5046 postgres 18 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:28 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5001 postgres 18 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:24 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5050 postgres 16 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:18 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5047 postgres 16 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:18 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5014 postgres 16 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:15 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5038 postgres 16 0 1171M 73M sleep 0:13 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5024 postgres 19 0 1169M 168M sleep 0:10 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5004 postgres 25 0 1169M 52M sleep 0:10 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5039 postgres 16 0 1169M 70M sleep 0:10 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5059 postgres 23 0 1169M 150M sleep 0:10 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5015 postgres 16 0 1167M 163M sleep 0:08 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5003 postgres 23 0 1169M 167M sleep 0:08 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5013 postgres 25 0 1169M 150M sleep 0:07 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5051 postgres 23 0 1169M 150M sleep 0:07 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 4999 postgres 25 0 1169M 30M sleep 0:05 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle 5216 postgres 16 0 1166M 4752K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% postgres: pref pref [local] idle In my postgresql.conf I have: max_connections = 50 shared_buffers = 1024MB (the rest unchanged, besides log settings. I can't access logs well enough now, because I'm on bad GPRS connection from Mallorca...) In my httpd.conf I have: <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 ServerLimit 120 MaxClients 120 MaxRequestsPerChild 4000 </IfModule> In error_log I see no alarming errors, but I don't understand why does pg_top show "idle"? In pgbouncer.log I have: 2011-06-16 20:10:54.315 4997 LOG C-0xbab2f40: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:10:56.472 4997 LOG C-0xbab30a0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:10:58.488 4997 LOG C-0xbab3200: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:10:58.957 4997 LOG C-0xbab3360: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:02.264 4997 LOG C-0xbab34c0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:05.782 4997 LOG C-0xbab3620: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:09.348 4997 LOG C-0xbab3780: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:12.349 4997 LOG C-0xbab38e0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:12.701 4997 LOG C-0xbab3a40: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:14.452 4997 LOG C-0xbab3ba0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:20.091 4997 LOG C-0xbab3d00: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:21.301 4997 LOG C-0xbab3e60: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:27.123 4997 LOG C-0xbab3fc0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:32.739 4997 LOG Stats: 20 req/s, in 2366 b/s, out 53821 b/s,query 114176 us 2011-06-16 20:11:34.074 4997 LOG C-0xbab4120: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:35.395 4997 LOG C-0xbab4280: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:37.558 4997 LOG C-0xbab43e0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:47.783 4997 LOG C-0xbab4540: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:48.624 4997 LOG C-0xbab46a0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:50.553 4997 LOG C-0xbab4800: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:51.802 4997 LOG C-0xbab4960: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:53.019 4997 LOG C-0xbab4ac0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:11:54.021 4997 LOG C-0xbab4c20: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:03.959 4997 LOG C-0xbab4d80: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:11.356 4997 LOG C-0xbab4ee0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:11.794 4997 LOG C-0xbab5040: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:28.356 4997 LOG C-0xbab51a0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:29.506 4997 LOG C-0xbab5300: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:30.033 4997 LOG C-0xbab5460: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:12:32.740 4997 LOG Stats: 13 req/s, in 1601 b/s, out 20196 b/s,query 107777 us 2011-06-16 20:12:33.978 4997 LOG C-0xbab5460: pref/pref@unix:6432 closing because: client close request (age=3) 2011-06-16 20:12:41.241 4997 LOG C-0xbab5460: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:13:00.454 4997 LOG C-0xbab55c0: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:13:15.025 4997 LOG C-0xbab5720: pref/pref@unix:6432 login attempt: db=pref user=pref 2011-06-16 20:13:32.740 4997 LOG Stats: 3 req/s, in 415 b/s, out 31253 b/s,query 108335 us 2011-06-16 20:14:32.740 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us 2011-06-16 20:15:32.740 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us 2011-06-16 20:16:32.740 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us 2011-06-16 20:17:32.740 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us 2011-06-16 20:18:32.741 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us 2011-06-16 20:19:32.741 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us 2011-06-16 20:20:32.742 4997 LOG Stats: 0 req/s, in 0 b/s, out 0 b/s,query 0 us (why 0 req/s here?) My machine is a Quad-core with 4GB RAM. I'm running CentOS 5.6 / 64 bit with PGDG: pgbouncer-1.3.4-1.rhel5 pgdg-centos-8.4-2 pg_top-3.6.2-1.rhel5 php53-pgsql-5.3.3-1.el5_6.1 compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.rhel5 postgresql-8.4.8-1PGDG.rhel5 postgresql-devel-8.4.8-1PGDG.rhel5 postgresql-libs-8.4.8-1PGDG.rhel5 postgresql-server-8.4.8-1PGDG.rhel5 It is not loaded since I have pgbouncer active: top - 20:26:42 up 56 min, 2 users, load average: 0.54, 0.70, 1.38 Tasks: 251 total, 2 running, 249 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.3%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 13.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 85.5%id, 1.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 20.5%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 78.2%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4018280k total, 1229012k used, 2789268k free, 36832k buffers Swap: 7999472k total, 0k used, 7999472k free, 636948k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2847 afarber 16 0 98808 29m 2704 S 21.2 0.7 11:28.30 pref.pl 3303 postgres 16 0 1169m 137m 134m R 12.9 3.5 4:43.59 postmaster 5239 afarber 15 0 12896 1228 828 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.08 top 1 root 15 0 10372 696 580 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.05 init 2 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 6 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1 7 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2 10 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/2 11 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/3 12 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/3 13 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/3 14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0 15 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1 16 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/2 17 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/3 18 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 55 root 14 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 62 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 63 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 64 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kblockd/2 .... I have probably misconfigured pgbouncer? My (poor) site is: preferans.de (currently almost at halt) Any help please? Alex -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general