PostgreSQL backend: a waste of time?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Nicola Ranaldo wrote:

> Howewer i think a pgsql connection for every master child could not be a
> problem, on my production server (7500 very active users, cyrus.log is
> 20MB/day) the average number of imapd is 15, pop3d is 30, lmtpd is 5 (under
> mail-bombing lmtpd process was 45). Howewer it is an AlphaServer ES45 with 4
> 1ghz CPU and 700Gb of raid disk and is quite fast. Wath's your experience
> with huge number of users or slow server ?

I'm not convinced that 45 concurrent connections constitutes "7500 very
active users", I'd expect to see something more like 3000
peak concurrent connections.

-Rob

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