On 11/30/2012 07:31 AM, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote:
> In theory what difference should it make to the performance, to have
> a pool in front of the database, that all my workers and web servers
> connect to instead of connecting directly? Where is the performance
> gain coming from in that situation?
If you have several more connections than you have processors, the
database does a *lot* more context switching, and among other things,
that drastically reduces PG performance. On a testbed, I can get over
150k transactions per second on PG 9.1 with a 1-1 relationship between
CPU and client. Increase that to a few hundred, and my TPS drops down to
30k. Simply having the clients there kills performance.
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