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Connection Pooling (version 1.2.0-1.2.12 *only*)

Informacja:

This section is no longer relevant as of the 1.3.0 release of the driver and only serves as a historical information on how the pooling used to work.

The latest versions of the driver have no concept of pooling anymore and will maintain only one connection per process, for each connection type (ReplicaSet/standalone/mongos), for each credentials combination.

Creating connections is one of the most heavyweight things that the driver does. It can take hundreds of milliseconds to set up a connection correctly, even on a fast network. Thus, the driver tries to minimize the number of new connections created by reusing connections from a pool.

When a user creates a new instance of MongoClient, all necessary connections will be taken from their pools (replica sets may require multiple connections, one for each member of the set). When the MongoClient instance goes out of scope, the connections will be returned to the pool. When the PHP process exits, all connections in the pools will be closed.

"Why do I have so many open connections?"

Connection pools can generate a large number of connections. This is expected and, using a little arithmetic, you can figure out how many connections will be created. There are three factors in determining the total number of connections:

The three variables above can be multiplied together to give the max number of connections expected: connections_per_pool * pools_per_process * processes. Note that connections_per_pool can be different for different pools, so connections_per_pool should be the max.

For example, suppose we're getting 30 connections per pool, 10 pools per PHP process, and 128 PHP processes. Then we can expect 38400 connections from this machine. Thus, we should set this machine's file descriptor limit to be high enough to handle all of these connections or it may run out of file descriptors.

See MongoPool for more information on connection pooling.


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