On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No. They are the vmstat figures from when I was replying to your > email. What will vmstat tell me and how should I set it up to do > "vmstat 10 logging"? Something like vmstat 10 > vmstat.log > LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer > LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > LOG: could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer > LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > > Now I don't know what is wrong or even where I should look. Postgresql > is often taking quite a bit of memory and CPU resources. > > I've reduced work_mem to 10MB and Max_connections to 100. (Anyway, the > old values were working just fine until recently!) > > The biggest problem: when I su into postgres user and do a psql to get > into the PG console in my SSH, it takes a whole lot of time to come > up! It used to come up in a jiffy earlier!!! It now shows me this > error: How many pgsql processes are there when this happens? Try something like ps axu|grep postgres to see. use ps axu|grep postgres|wc -l to get a rough count. I'm guessing that your web service layer is keeping old connections open. could be something as ugly as php's pg_pconnect or a buggy jdbc driver, etc... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq