Thanks Benjamin. Most of the time the database only has 5-6 connections, however we occasionally get a flood of connections which can mean 60+ connections (when a company email is sent out with a link to a web page), so I'm looking to handle these spikes in connections as best I can :-)
Kieren Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pgBouncer for connection pooling Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:15:34 -0600 From: k...@servoyant.com To: kierensc...@hotmail.com; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org I have pgbouncer running on the same server, and I get over 2000 calls to a php page per minute. Each call does inserts data digests into partitioned tables. I also have a multi-threaded daemon connected to the same database running background operations on the data coming in. Works flawlessly. BTW, 20 connections is not a heavy load at all. In my application, pgbouncer has opened about 60 backends to handle the cases where I have a high oncurrency of data coming in at once, but usually the # non-idle connections is < 10. From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Kieren Scott Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 8:38 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: [ADMIN] pgBouncer for connection pooling Hi, I have a web-based application (drupal) which uses PHP to make connections to a back-end postgresql 8.3 server. The application and database are on separate servers, but as we can get 20+ concurrent connections on the database I've looked at pgBouncer to try and reduce the overhead of new connections on the database. I currently have pgBouncer running on the same server as my postgres database but I was wondering whether this is a recommended setup - are the performance benefits of using a connection pooler overshadowed by the overhead of running pgBouncer on the same server as the database? How are other people using pgBouncer? E.g. on a separate server from the database etc...? Thanks in advance.
