Tag Archives: network

On connections

Posted on 2011/08/28 by

MySQL is needlessly slow at accepting new connections. People usually work around that by having various sorts of connection pools, but there’s always a scale at which connection pools are not feasible. Sometimes connection avalanches come unexpected, and even if … Continue reading →

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TCP tuning for your database

Posted on 2006/09/12 by

Lately lots of new fascinating technologies are used to build even more fascinating new solutions, and solutions nowadays even run on distributed environments, not just on single server. These servers usually communicate using TCP – standard, that has been here … Continue reading →

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