Re: MusicBrainz postgres performance issues

Robert Kaye <rob(at)musicbrainz(dot)org> wrote:

> However, I am glad to report that our problems are fixed and that our server is
> back to humming along nicely.
>
> What we changed:
>
> 1. As it was pointed out here, max_connections of 500 was in fact insanely
> high, especially in light of using PGbouncer. Before we used PGbouncer we
> needed a lot more connections and when we started using PGbouncer, we never
> reduced this number.
>
> 2. Our server_lifetime was set far too high (1 hour). Josh Berkus suggested
> lowering that to 5 minutes.
>
> 3. We reduced the number of PGbouncer active connections to the DB.
>

Many thanks for the feedback!

Andreas
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