Yea I'm seeing the same thing on my development instance.
While it doesn't completely solove the issue it seems to make it manageble
for people still running 1.7. Without setting a rediculous number of max
connection in postgresql. I still haven't had a chance to compare with 1.8
but I. Sould be able to start testing that soon.
On Nov 9, 2012 11:03 AM, "Jonathan Scott" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Update:
>
> The system still seems to be managing the "idle in transaction" processes
> much better than before. While the number fluctuates (its in the 30s
> today), it doesn't appear to be a detriment to the application as it was
> once before.
>
> - Jonathan
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yea; after my nightly errata check, my "idle in transaction" processes
>> climbed up to 50 and has hung there all morning. The only real noticeable
>> change is that the app was actually functional this morning after the
>> errata load vs. hung with maxed out apache processes. I'll keep running
>> under this configuration for the remainder of the week.
>>
>> - Jonathan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Paul Robert Marino 
>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Well after letting it run for 24 hours Ive found it doesn't completely
>>> eliminate them but it has reduced them significantly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Just sayin', I haven't seen these in the two days since I upgraded to
>>> spacewalk 1.8…
>>> >
>>> > If they do appear, I wouldn't mind testing either.  I've got a few
>>> hundred servers on our spacewalk instance, along with a proxy,  to help
>>> stress it with.
>>> >
>>> > Greg Wojtak
>>> > Sr. Unix Systems Engineer
>>> > Office: (313) 373-4306
>>> > Cell: (734) 718-8472
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > From: Jonathan Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> > Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <
>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:
>>> [email protected]>>
>>> > Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 1:39 PM
>>> > To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <
>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> > Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "
>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <
>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] [Spacewalk-devel] I think I found the
>>> root cause of the PostgreSQL Idle in transaction connection build up.
>>> >
>>> > Paul, you stud! I'm one of the ones reporting this same issue, and I
>>> will happily volunteer my 60-instance Spacewalk 1.7 install for testing.
>>> I'll implement your fix and report back on my findings.
>>> >
>>> > - Jonathan
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Paul Robert Marino <
>>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Well you are right there is nothing in the change log that idicates
>>> that this issue existed or how its fixed.
>>> > But as I said it seems to fix it there is probably a side effect fix
>>> that was not planed but seems to work.
>>> > The results are rediculously obvious initialy now honestly I think it
>>> needs a few days of testing to prove it, and I would like for others to
>>> confirm it but from my initial test it on one of my development instances
>>> it looks good. I would like other people to test it because I'm not using
>>> monitoring on that instance and I only have a few systems attached to it
>>> but the difference is so obvious there is deffinitly something there.
>>> > By the way I've seen the change log betwean 701to 702 but I haven't
>>> seen the change log betwean 702 and 703 and I looked its not on their site
>>> or in the source package as far as I could initialy tell.
>>> >
>>> > While I admit I can't point to a reason in the change log why, it at
>>> least initialy seems to work. I think if any thing it may be a compound
>>> correction of multiple bugs that may of fixed a larger harder to pinpoint
>>>  issue.
>>> >
>>> > On Nov 6, 2012 12:01 AM, "Tom Lane" <[email protected]<mailto:
>>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>> > Paul Robert Marino <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> writes:
>>> >> Ive been doing some testing and I am fairly positive I found out why
>>> >> the number of connections in PostgreSQL increases and its not a
>>> >> spacewalk bug at all.
>>> >> It looks like its a JDBC bug [ and is fixed in 8.4-703 ]
>>> >
>>> > This is really interesting, but I looked through the upstream commit
>>> > logs, and I can't see any patches between 8.4-701 and 8.4-703 that look
>>> > like they'd cure a "connection leak" such as you're describing.  There
>>> > are a couple of fixes for possible loss-of-protocol-sync issues, but it
>>> > doesn't seem like that would result in silent leakage; the symptoms
>>> > would be pretty obvious.
>>> >
>>> > Have you poked into the client-side state to see what that end thinks
>>> > it's doing with the idle connections?
>>> >
>>> >                         regards, tom lane
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