Re: Monitoring number of backends - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Monitoring number of backends
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Msg-id 20131022175937.GA2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Monitoring number of backends  (andy <andy@squeakycode.net>)
Responses Re: Monitoring number of backends  (andy <andy@squeakycode.net>)
Re: Monitoring number of backends  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
Re: Monitoring number of backends  (Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>)
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Andy,

* andy (andy@squeakycode.net) wrote:
> My website is about to get a little more popular.  I'm trying to add
> in some measurements to determine an upper limit of how many
> concurrent database connections I'm currently using.

PG is really *much* happier if you have only one backend per CPU in your
system.  The way to get there is by using a connection pooler like
pg_bouncer and configuring it based on how many CPUs you have.

pg_bouncer can also provide stats for you.

    Thanks,

        Stephen

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