On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:21:51AM -0700, jing han wrote: > Hello, > > After 6 days busy running, one of my process dead of > cannot connect to database, and the log message shows > that exceeding max_connections. The max_connections = > 30. > > By running watch -d "ps ax |grep postgres" I only find > 6 connections to database, there must be dead > connections laying around and I cannot see them. > > Can you tell me how to monitor dead connections to > postgres database? This isn't the list for this type of question; moving to -general. You can query from pg_stat_activity: SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; or SELECT count(*) FROM pg_stat_activity; -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly