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From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Cesar Arrieta <cesar.cba@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Server Configuration
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:32:17 -0600
Message-ID: <20110202183217.GM24931@aart.is.rice.edu> (raw)
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 03:15:22PM -0300, Cesar Arrieta wrote:
> Hi, I have a Server with Fedora Core 11, Tomcat and Postgresql 8.3.
> With Hardware:
> * 8GB RAM
> * 8 processors Intel Xeon E5520 @2.27GHz
> * 250GB SATA DISK
> 
> Actually, it serves at most 250 connections.
> The problem happends when it serves many many connections at a time, tables
> and queries began to get blocked, then I have to kill some processes
> in order to allow other people continue working.
> 
> Wich recommendations could you give me for to configure postgresql.conf, and
> could it be eficcient to buy another server with almost same hardware
> in order to use pgPool2 with replication, load balance and parallel query?.

It sounds like you may just need a connection pooler (pgpool, pgbouncer)
and it might work just fine.

Cheers,
Ken



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