Each open connection is a fork that takes up ~10MB. There is actually a 25 connection limit (3 are reserved for maintenance) so that's ~250MB just on connection

Each open connection is a fork that takes up ~10MB. There is actually a 25 connection limit (3 are reserved for maintenance) so that's ~250MB just on connections. More info here [0]. 0: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/how-to/postgresql/manage-connection-pools/ https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/how-to/postgresq...