> A formula which has held up pretty well across a lot of benchmarks > for years is that for optimal throughput the number of active > connections should be somewhere near > ((core_count * 2) + effective_spindle_count). Our entire Production application stack is setup in Amazon EC2 cloud environment, that includes database server also. So, in that case, how do I find out "effective_spindle_count"? I know "core_count" can be determined from Amazon EC2 instance type. Per Amazon EC2, EBS volumes are reportedly a shared resource. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin