Poul Møller Hansen wrote:
I'm trying to setup a database for 10000 concurrent users for a test. I have a system with 1GB of RAM where I will use 512MB for PostgreSQL. It is running SuSE 9.3
I think you're being horribly optimistic if you actually want 10000 concurrent connections, with users all doing things. Even if you only allow 1MB for each connection that's 10GB of RAM you'd want. Plus a big chunk more to actually cache your database files and do work in. Then, if you had 10,000 concurrent queries you'd probably want a mainframe to handle all the concurrency, or perhaps a 64-CPU box would suffice...
You probably want to investigate connection pooling, but if you say what you want to achieve then people will be able to suggest the best approach.
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