first of all, your clients are closing connections?? yo should use a pool connection. 2005/10/10, Venki@xxxxxxxxxx <Venki@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > Hi All, > I am sorry if this was already discussed. I am new to the world of > postgressql and was experincing a problem for which I need help of an > expert in this lists. > We have devloped a site(asp.net 1.1) for which we have used postgresql 7.4 > as the backend database. When the number of connections increases we are > getting an error "Too many clients are connected" we then adjusted the > number of connections from the initial value of 30+ to 200 it get solved > initially but we are experincing the same problem again. Before adjust the > connection settings I would like some one with answers to the following > questions. > 1. How does postgresql handles database connections? > 2. Under what situations does this error "Too many clients connected" is > thrown? > 3. Should we increase the max connection settings to say 1000 if yes what > about the PC configuration that is needed for it. We are currently running > the postgresql in a linux box with 1 GB ram and 2GHZ xeon processor. > 4. is it advisable to upgrade postgresql to 8.0?? will it solve this error > once and for all. > > Thanks in advance > > regards > venki > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- Atte Moises Alberto Lindo Gutarra Consultor y Desarrollador Java / Open Source TUMI Solutions SAC Tel: +51.13481104 Cel: +51.197366260 MSN : mlindo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster