[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk eats up all connections to postgres

Paul Robert Marino prmarino1 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 17:58:25 UTC 2012


Well I'm curious are you using monitoring?
I never tested the updated jdbc driver with monitoring enabled until I
upgraded to 1.8
On Dec 12, 2012 2:30 PM, "Jonathan Scott" <lists at xistenz.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I was the first one to point out the jdbc driver
>> it does help significantly but i never could find any thing in the
>> change log to explain why it fixes the issue
>> its not a 100% fix but you will notice a 95% reduction in idle
>> connections and it will be relatively stable give or take 5 idle
>> connections.
>>
>>
> I remember you doing so, and I was one of the ones who started testing as
> soon as you posted. Unfortunately, it didn't do anything to help in my
> situation as far as I could tell (perhaps slowing down but never reducing).
> I still had stacking idle transactions necessitating nightly restarts. My
> idle transaction count would quadruple every few hours until postgresql
> stopped accepting connections. Adjusting the connection count only delayed
> the inevitable.
>
> Applying the patch to python-psycopg2 is the only thing that has thus far
> proven to provide an actual fix to my issues. I have been running solid for
> days, never breaking more than 10 idle transactions (consistently running
> around 3-4), and not needing a full application recycle (and ipcs flush of
> apache processes) yet.
>
>
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