Re: Scaling postgres

KEepAlives must be enabled on client and server, Netscape 4 doesn't do
keep-alives, NS6 I don't know, mosta ll versions of MSIE do keep alive
if the server allows them.

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:45:56PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:38:06 +1000
>>"Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>>Also, an idling client generally does not keep a connection open to the
>>>Apache server. So if you have 800 people changing webpage once a minute,
>>>you're really only going to be handling 15 processes at the same time.
>>>
>>This assumes you're not using KeepAlives, in which case an httpd child
>>will wait around for KeepAliveTimeout seconds before serving other
>>clients.
>>
>
>Hmm, the default is 15 seconds. So if you are expecting lots of short
>transactions, this could blow out your connection count to 200 or so.
>Depending on the situation I'd be tempted to drop that down since the costs
>of setting up connections is much lower on a LAN than over the internet
>(assuming he's running on a LAN).
>
>But a valid point notheless...
>