Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>> On 3/1/07, Shiva Sarna <shivasarna@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>>> I am sorry if it is a repeat question but I want to know if database
>>> performance will decrease if I increase the max-connections to 2000. At
>>> present it is 100.
>> Most certainly. Adding connections over 200 will degrade performance
>> dramatically. You should look into pgpool or connection pooling from
>> the application.
>
> huh? That is certainly not my experience. I have systems that show no
> depreciable performance hit on even 1000+ connections. To be fair to the
> discussion, these are on systems with 4+ cores. Usually 8+ and
> significant ram 16/32 gig fo ram.
Yeah - I thought that somewhere closer to 10000 connections is where you
get hit with socket management related performance issues.
Cheers
Mark