It is my understanding that connections consume 400b of memory apiece, and that the memory is only held while the process is active; so, if you drop 450 connections, your memory usage will drop about 200k. In this day and age, that doesn't mean a lot, but you should see mild performance improvements.
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Nik Tek
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:49 PM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] Pg max_connection
Hi,
I have a question on max_connections.
I have a application which would require more connection at the startup time(something like 500 connections), after the initial startup is done, the connections drop to 50.
Question: If I set my max_connection to 500 at the db start-up time and later after 1 hour the application drops the db connections to 50. Would this have any impact on the resource usage and performance?
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