Re: [GENERAL] General Performance questions

"Delao, Darryl W" <ddelao@ou.edu> writes:
> I have been monitoring netstat -c on my db server for a few days now.  I am
> trying to determine if when I see a postgres connection, if that is indeed
> just 1 connection or if it is a bunch of connections tied up in 1.

One connection is one connection.

> The
> other day I had postgres set to a limit of 128 connections, and that was
> reached.  But at no time while monitoring netstat -c did I see 128
> connections!

Are you watching both Unix and TCP sockets?  Have you compared netstat
to ps output?

            regards, tom lane