On Tue, March 30, 2010 06:09, Greg Smith wrote: > Michael Gould wrote: >> >> I don't know why virtualization is considered a no-no...Since these >> are all quad core with 32 gig running Windows 2003 64 bit, we can run >> about 100 users concurrently on each application server before we >> start to see a strain. >> > > You answered your own question here. Ramiro is looking for suggestions > for how to scale up to >500 connections at once, and it's not that > likely virtualization can fill any useful role in that context. That rather depends on your virtualisation layer. We haven't run large PG databases on our zLinux/zVM machines, but we have Oracle DBs running comparable connection numbers without any issues. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin