I thought that too, but the TIME_WAIT ones are not persistent. They eventually die off after ~4m which I think is the standard, but new ones are constantly made.
-- David A. Niblett | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator | Phone: (352) 334-3400 Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:48 AM To: DBMail mailinglist Subject: Re: [Dbmail] TIME_WAIT processes Sounds like each child gets a persistant connection to the database to reduce overhead during client connections. The number of waiting connections is equal to the amount of child processes, no? -Micha Niblett, David A wrote: >I've noticed that when I start dbmail-X there always >seem to be a large number of TIME_WAIT connections >reported by netstat. All of these connections are going >to my postgres database. > >For example, I only have IMAP running, with the following: > >NCHILDREN=5 >MAXCHILDREN=20 >MINSPARECHILDREN=2 >MAXSPARECHILDREN=4 >MAXCONNECTS=10000 >TIMEOUT=4000 > >In my netstat output, I have 5 "established" connection to >the database, and then at a minimum of 48 in "time_wait". >That number grows to 55, and then drops back to 48. > >When I run IMAP with a trace level of 9, it shows the starting of the 5 >children and then nothing else. (this is a test server no traffic). > >I'm lost as to why this is happening, anyone else see this, >or know why it happens? > >TIA > >-- >David A. Niblett | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Network Administrator | Phone: (352) 334-3400 >Gainesville Regional Utilities | Web: http://www.gru.net/ > >_______________________________________________ >Dbmail mailing list >Dbmail@dbmail.org https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > _______________________________________________ Dbmail mailing list Dbmail@dbmail.org https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
