Re: supporting 2000 simultaneous connections.

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Hannes Dorbath <light(at)theendofthetunnel(dot)de>
Cc: Shiva Sarna <shiva(dot)sarna(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: supporting 2000 simultaneous connections.
Date: 2007-03-01 16:26:34
Message-ID: 45E6FEBA.5000506@commandprompt.com
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Hannes Dorbath wrote:
> On 28.02.2007 07:15, Shiva Sarna wrote:
>> The client want us to support 2000 simultaneous users. My question is
>> will there be any performance degradation if I increase the
>> max_connections of pgsql to 2000.
>
> Consider using a connection pool..

But to answer the question, it entirely depends on your hardware. I
wouldn't try this with less than 16Gig of ram and 4-8 cores.

Joshua D. Drake

>

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