Re: [PERFORM] Restricting Postgres

I am generally interested in a good solution for this.  So far our
solution has been to increase the hardware to the point of allowing
800 connections to the DB.

I don't have the mod loaded for Apache, but we haven't had too many
problems there.  The site is split pretty good between dynamic and
non-dynamic, it's largely Flash with several plugins to the DB.
However we still can and have been slammed and up to point of the 800
connections.

What I don't get is why not use pgpool?  This should eliminate the
rapid fire forking of postgres instanaces in the DB server.  I'm
assuming you app can safely handle a failure to connect to the DB
(i.e. exceed number of DB connections).  If not it should be fairly
simple to send a 503 header when it's unable to get the connection.

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:17:22 -0500, Martin Foster
<martin@ethereal-realms.org> wrote:
> Apache has a global setting for load average limits, the above was just
> a module which extended the capability.  It might also make sense to
> have limitations set on schema's which can be used in a similar way to
> Apache directories.
>
> While for most people the database protecting itself against a sudden
> surge of high traffic would be undesirable.   It can help those who run
> dynamically driven sites and get slammed by Slashdot for example.
>
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