[Pgpool-general] pgpool problems

[Bjoern Metzdorf]

Hi Tatsuo,

greetings to Japan!

> pg_pconnect will eat up all pgpool child processes(number of them is
> 64, in your case). If you want to keep using pg_pconnect, you need to
> increase num_init_chidren until it exceeds number of possible Apache
> child processes (probably this is defined by MaxClients directive in
> httpd.conf).
> 
> Or changing all pg_pconnect calls to pg_connect should solve your
> problem.

I tried with pg_connect and pg_pconnect, but maybe I should restart all 
webservers afterwards. I'll test this again.

Do I assume correctly that if I have a large percentage of "idle" 
postgresql processes I may lower num_init_children and raise max_pool?

Regards,
Bjoern