Have you tested it with regular pg_connects instead of pg_pconnect? while many people expect pconnects to be faster, often, when they result in the database having lots of open idle connections, they actually make the system slower than just using plain connects.
You might want to look into some of the connection pooling options out there that work with PHP, as persistant connections work well only for a smaller number of hard working threads, and not so well for a large number of connections of which only a few are actually hitting the db at the same time. The becomes especially bad in your situation, where it sounds like you have multiple databases to connect to, so php is keeping multiple backends alive for each front end thread. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])