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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: large dataset with write vs read clients
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:57:48 -0400
Message-ID: <20101007185748.GZ26232@tamriel.snowman.net> (raw)
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* Dan Harris (fbsd@drivefaster.net) wrote:
>  On 10/7/10 11:47 AM, Aaron Turner wrote:
>> Basically, each connection is taking about 100MB resident.  As we need
>> to increase the number of threads to be able to query all the devices
>> in the 5 minute window, we're running out of memory.
> I think the first thing to do is look into using a connection pooler  
> like pgpool to reduce your connection memory overhead.

Yeah..  Having the number of database connections be close to the number
of processors is usually recommended.

	Stephen

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