Fei Liu, > It appears my multi-thread application (100 connections every 5 seconds) > is stalled when working with postgresql database server. I have limited > number of connections in my connection pool to postgresql to 20. At the > begining, connection is allocated and released from connection pool as > postgres serves data request. The pool can recover from exhaustion. But > very quickly (after about 400 client requests), it seems postgres server > stops serving and connection to postgres server is not released any more > resulting a resource exhausting for clients.
This sounds more like a problem with your connection pool. Unless PostgreSQL is slowing down due to CPU/RAM/I/O saturation? In any case, I doubt the problem is too many connections, or you'd just get an error message ... -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend