Re: What's a lot of connections?

From: "Jeffrey W(dot) Baker" <jwbaker(at)acm(dot)org>
To: karim(dot)nassar(at)acm(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What's a lot of connections?
Date: 2005-07-15 07:14:42
Message-ID: 1121411682.7733.0.camel@noodles
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On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 00:00 -0700, Karim Nassar wrote:
> I am working on a system that uses postgresql 7.4.2 (can't change that
> until 8.1 goes stable). Just figured out that there are about 285,000
> connections created over about 11 hours every day. That averages out to
> about 7.2 connections per second.
>
> Is that a lot? I've never seen that many.

I see about 8 million connections per full day. Connecting to postgres
is cheap.

-jwb

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