* Mark Kirkwood: > Yeah - I thought that somewhere closer to 10000 connections is where > you get hit with socket management related performance issues. Huh? These sockets aren't handled in a single process, are they? Nowadays, this number of sockets does not pose any problem for most systems, especially if you don't do I/O multiplexing. Of course, if you've got 10,000 connections which are active in parallel, most users won't be content with 1/10,000th of your database performance. 8-/ (I don't see why idle connections should be a problem from a socket management POV, though.) -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99