Michael Peppler wrote:
>
> The back-end is Sybase. The actual connect time isn't the issue here
> (for me.) It's the sheer number of connections, and the potential
> issue with the number of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT or TIME_WAIT state on
> the database server. We're looking at a farm of 40 front-end servers,
> each runnning ~150 modperl procs. If each of the modperl procs opens
> one connection that's 6000 connections on the database side.
Thanks, that makes more sense. I was thrown off by the stated advantage being
that connections don't go down when the apache child dies. I thought it was
a performance-enhancer.
> I'm not worried about RAM usage on the web servers.
Cool, thanks.
- Barrie
