Re: scaling up postgres

From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
To: Zydoon <fzied(at)planet(dot)tn>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: scaling up postgres
Date: 2006-06-21 07:31:22
Message-ID: 4498F5CA.9050602@logix-tt.com
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Hi, Zydoon,

Zydoon wrote:

> Now I'm trying to make my tests, and I'm not that sure I will make the
> switch to the PSeries, since my dual xeon with 4 G RAM can handle 3500
> concurrent postmasters consuming 3.7 G of the RAM. I cannot reach this
> number on the PSeries with 2 G.

This sounds like you want to have one postgresql backend per apache
frontend.

Did you try running pgpool on the Apache machine, and have only a few
(hundred) connections to the backend?

Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memcached could be helpful, too.

Markus

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