Dan,
You can get a sense of how much memory you will need by the shorthand presented in table 16-2 for calculating the value of SHMMAX:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/kernel- resources.html#SYSVIPC-PARAMETERS
Otherwise, you'll need to include some estimate of work_mem and maintenance_work_mem based on your knowledge of your queries:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME- CONFIG-RESOURCE
As far as disk I/O and contention at that level, I'm not sure how that will be affected by sheer number of connections. There's a simple utility in contrib called pgbench that you could use to do some testing.
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On Mar 27, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
I'm trying to get a handle on how an app I'm looking to roll out's going to impact the server I'm connecting to, and what sort of capacity planning's going to be needed to make it all work relatively well.
I'm looking at around 250-300 simultaneous users, nearly all of them doing interactive work. (Curses-based screen stuff for the most part) I'd not too worried about the server we've got for them being able to handle that except... for reasons that are fairly annoying, I'm looking at somewhere in excess of 9K simultaneous connections to the database server, and I'm not in a position to cut that down any. (The app suite's written in an old 4GL that assumes an ISAM database. We're porting to a modern database and runtime, but we have to preserve the DB semantics of the original database. Nasty, but there you go)
I know each of the back-end processes is going to suck down some resources on the server, but am I going to hit coordination or inter-process sync delays with that many different back ends going at once? (And is there a good way, short of just running some load tests, to estimate the costs involved?)
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