150 maxActive setting, but we have some low usage application getting direct db connection(out of the pool). The interesting is that the server suddently get a lot of connections and reach the limit and then release them. I'm willing to change to Tomcat 7 connection pool. We are using c3pO and apache ones, maybe that's a problem. Thank you, Well, > Rodrigo Pereira da Silva wrote: > >> We have about 10 web applications deployed in a Tomcat 7.0 >> accessing a Postgresql 9.1 database. We do use connection pooling. >> We have the max_connections parameter set to 200 connections, >> however, we are reaching the max connections sporadically(about 4 >> time/day). > > What is the pooler's maxActive setting? (It should be less than the > PostgreSQL max_connections setting.) > > BTW, 200 seems alwfully high unless a *really* high end machine. Â You > may have fewer timeouts if you avoid swamping the server with a > "thundering herd" of requests. > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Number_Of_Database_Connections > > -Kevin > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general