On 10/18/2011 06:57 AM, Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview) wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> We have a setup where in there are around 100 process running in
> parallel every 5 minutes and each one of them opens a connection to
> database. We are observing that for each connection , postgre also
> created on sub processes. We have set max_connection to 100. So the
> number of sub process in the system is close to 200 every 5 minutes. And
> because of this we are seeing very high CPU usage. We need following
> information
>
> 1.Is there any configuration we do that would pool the connection
> request rather than coming out with connection limit exceed.
Yes you need a pooler. Initiating connections like that is expensive.
The use of PgBouncer is your friend here.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgBouncer
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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