From: "Emmanuel Pierre" <epierre@apr-job.com>
> on my DB server I ave 245 "idle" postmasters process for 130 httpd
> persistant DB connections alive.
Are you using persistant connections from Apache/PHP? If so, you are
probably getting at least one connection per Apache child process.
> can anyone give me a clue how to manage this number of unused/idles
> children and how to have them quickerly deallocated ?
If this is Apache, you'll need to make sure the Apache processes die off
quicker. Perhaps look at MaxSpareServers.
- Richard Huxton