How much memory will each connection use? What happens to the host and the network with 10k active tcp connections? On 25/09/2007, David Sharples <davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > why a recipe for disaster? > > On 25/09/2007, Greg Rahn <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Having 10,000 database connections on a given node (regardless of > > size) is probably a recipe for failure. Have you considered using a > > connection pool? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Pool > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l