On 5/16/2016 2:11 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
Yes a connection consumes resources. 
 an idle connection consumes some memory, a process context, and a 
 network socket.   its not using CPU or disk IO. 
 True, but the existence of poolers says that can be an issue. 
I note that MRTG style graph showed max 16, average 5 idle connections.   thats a rather small number to be concerned with.  if it was 100s, then I'd be worrying about it.
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