On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:04:32PM -0400, E. Schmidbauer wrote:
some modules can have child processes that each maintain a database connection. the number of child processes for a module can sometimes be set using a modparam() for that module
Well, indeed, and that is germane.
However, it doesn't explain the disproportionate number of DB connections relative to absolute number of child processes running, in total, and why some processes appear to generate multiple connections.