On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:36 PM, mark <dvlhntr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Scott,
> 1000 max connections ? I thought that was several times more than
> recommended these days, even for 24 or 48 core machines. Or am I living in
> the past ? (I admit that my most recent runs of pgbench showed that best
> throughput at around 250 backends from a 2 cpu VM which kind of surprised me
> for a synthetic load and all that)
>
It's definitely sub optimal, but we haven't had the time to test
pgbouncer or pgpool in staging. luckily about 95% of those
connections are idle at any given time, and no queries do anything
that causes a thundering herd issue.
