Re: scaling up postgres

Tom Lane wrote:

fzied@planet.tn writes: 

I'm using httperf/autobench for measurments and the best result I can get 
is that my system can handle a trafiic of almost 1600 New con/sec.   

As per PFC's comment, if connections/sec is a bottleneck for you then
the answer is to use persistent connections.  Launching a new backend
is a fairly heavyweight operation in Postgres.  

I thought the OP was talking about HTTP connections/s. He didn't say if he
was using persistent database connections or not (obviously better if so).
If it were the case that his setup is new backend launch rate-limited, then
wouldn't the machine show CPU saturation ?  (he said it didn't).