Poul Møller Hansen <freebsd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I have a problem with slow connects to a database server. > > In a little Java application I am starting 100 threads, each one making > a database connection. The program is running on my laptop. > > When connecting to one server (AMD Opteron 2GHz with Solaris & > pgsql version 8.0.3) the 100 connections takes 455 seconds! Is it possible that you've got DNS timeouts happening or something like that? Though I don't think PG does reverse DNS lookups, especially not by default. Watching the connection process with 'tcpdump' to see where the stall happens might be informative. -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org