Re: supporting 2000 simultaneous connections.

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 18:09, Mariano Mara wrote:
> Shiva Sarna escribió:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on a web application where the front end is struts
> > framework and back end is PgSQL 7.4.
> >
> > The client want us to support 2000 simultaneous users. My question
> > is will there be any performance degradation if I increase the
> > max_connections of pgsql to 2000.
> >
> > Is there a limit to maximum number of simultaneous user supoorted by
> > pgsql.
> >
> > thanks for your time and help.

> You can test it. Use JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) and
> stress it to know where the limit is (according to your hardware, of
> course).

I have to toss my hat in on jmeter as well.  It's not perfect, but it
gets the job done, and has a lot of programmability in it.