Hi All, What's a sensible way to pick the number to use for max_connections?
I'm looking after a reasonable size multi-tenant cluster, where the master handles all the load and there's a slave in case of hardware failure in the master. The machine is used to host what I suspect are mainly django applications, so lots of short web requests, not sure how much, if any, django's orm does connection pooling.
I arbitrarily picked 1000 for max_connections and haven't had any problems, but onboarding another app that handles a few million requests per day on Monday and thinking about potential problems related to the number of available connections.
What's "too much" for max_connections? What happens when you set it to high? What factors affect that number?
cheers, Chris
