An oversized pool
Enough connections to approach maxclients, which refuses new ones at the limit
app-instances: 500 pool-size: 20 maxclients: 10000
Redis Connection Pool Calculator
Give the instance count and pool size. The result shows the share of maxclients used, the buffer memory it costs, and what a single connection can actually sustain.
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Examples
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A reasonable pool
Fewer connections, with the throughput a single one sustains
app-instances: 20 pool-size: 10 maxclients: 10000
Common mistakes
These are the ones that fail silently. The config is accepted, nothing raises an error, and the consequence arrives later.
Raising the pool size to increase throughput
Redis executes on one thread, so all connections share one executor. Adding connections adds contention and buffers, not capacity.
Instead:Pipeline instead. That genuinely raises throughput.
Ignoring the memory each connection costs
Every connection carries input and output buffers, roughly 20 KB idle and far more under load.
Instead:Include it. Ten thousand connections is hundreds of megabytes before any data.
Forgetting a deploy can double the count
During a rolling deploy both old and new instances hold pools, briefly doubling connections.
Instead:Leave headroom below maxclients for the overlap.
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