dev@archonet.com ("Richard Huxton") wrote in
<20010424190204.84D6D2A3AB@mainbox.archonet.com>:
>Konstantin Borchert <borchert@antsatwork.de> said:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have problems with PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on a RedHat 6.2 System. Very
>> often postgresql post me the following warning and error message.
>>
>>
>> Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: Sorry, too many
>> clients already in /home/server/...
>> PostgreSQL said: Unable to connect to server
>>
>>
>> It seems to be a problem with buffers and backends. So i have restart
>> the postmaster with the parameters "/usr/bin/postmaster -N 256 -B 512
>> " ... (i put these parameters in the file "postmaster.opts" in the
>> postgresql data folder).But it seems to have no effect. The problem
>> still exist.
>
>How many clients do you have when this happens?
no more than 32 clients
>How much RAM have you got?
the server has 256 MB RAM
>Did you alter the max_connections setting at install time?
no, i use the default values
it's possible to change the value of max_connections??
>
>- Richard Huxton
>