Re: Big number of connections - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mike Sofen
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In response to Re: Big number of connections  (Jim Nasby <[email protected]>)
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From: Jim Nasby Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2016 10:19 AM

>>On 4/1/16 2:54 AM, jarek wrote:
>> I'll be happy to hear form users of big PostgreSQL installations, how
>> many users do you have and what kind of problems we may expect.
>> Is there any risk, that huge number of roles will slowdown overall
>> performance ?

>Assuming you're on decent sized hardware though, 3000-4000 open connections shouldn't be much of an >issue *as long as
veryfew are active at once*. If you get into a situation where there's a surge of activity >and you suddenly have 2x
moreactive connections than cores, you won't be happy. I've seen that push >servers into a state where the only way to
recoverwas to disconnect everyone. 
>--
>Jim Nasby

Jim - I don't quite understand the math here: on a server with 20 cores, it can only support 40 active users?

I come from the SQL Server world where a single 20 core server could support hundreds/thousands of active users and/or
manydozens of background/foreground data processes.  Is there something fundamentally different between the two
platformsrelative to active user loads?  How would we be able to use Postgres for larger web apps? 

Mike Sofen





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