Re: [GENERAL] Optimizations for busy DB??

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Dustin Sallings wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 1999, Brian wrote:
>
>     One obvious thing might be to try to avoid having so many things
> hitting the database.  I've found that often when people have that many
> connections in use, there's a better way to do it.  This may not be the
> case for you since I don't know your application, but the best database
> optimizations I've put into place were in the application, having it avoid
> hitting the database.

its a really busy website retreviing data from the database.


>
> #
> # We are running a Database that is having between 100-500 simultaneous
> # accesses at any given time.  Are their any flags, switches or
> # optimizations on the postgres level that can be done?  such as options
> # passed to postgres etc?  We run 6.3.2, and start it like:
> #
> # su postgres -c '/usr/bin/postmaster -i -S -D/var/lib/pgsql
> #
> # Thanks for any help.
> #
> # Brian
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