Thomas Kellerer schrieb am 19.01.2018 um 17:48: > > I wonder what performance implications that has on a server with > around 50-100 active connections (through pgBouncer). > > My understanding of the documentation is, that Postgres will work > just fine if we lower the limit, it simply releases the cached file > handles if the limit is reached. But I have no idea how expensive > opening a file handle is in Linux. > > So assuming the sessions (and thus the queries) actually do need that > many file handles, what kind of performance impact (if any) is to be > expected by lowering that value for Postgres to e.g. 500? I would be really interested in an answer.