Too many open mongoDB connections when using Celery

I'm using 开发者_如何学CCelery to download feeds and resize images. The feeds and image paths are then stored in MongoDB using mongoengine. When I check current connections (db.serverStatus()["connections"]) after running the tasks I have between 50-80 "current" connections, which remain open until I shutdown celeryd. Has anyone experienced this issue and/or do you know what I can do to solve it?

Thanks, Kenzic

This just means that there are between 50 and 80 connections open to the MongoDB server, and isn't cause for concern. PyMongo (and therefore MongoEngine) maintain an internal pool of connections (that is, sockets) to mongod, so even when nothing is happening (no active queries, commands, etc), the connections remain open to the database for the next time they will be used. By default, PyMongo attempts to retain no more than 10 open connections per Connection object.

Are you experiencing any specific problems due to the number of open connections?