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Calculations run on this device. Scenario values are not sent anywhere — the engine is fully local.

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Connection Pool Sizer

Little's Law meets max_connections: size pools that neither queue nor crush the DB.

How big should the pool be — and what breaks when it's bigger?

Engine 1.0.0 · calculation
1500
ms
55000
15000
ms
105000
Throughput cap
1250 /s
Utilization
64.0%
Acquire risk
medium
Timeout
200 ms

Pool covers arrival rate under this hold time.

pool 50 × 25.0 turns/s

Method

  • Deterministic local model of the mechanism — knobs recompute outputs instantly with no network.
  • Numbers are teaching approximations, not production capacity guarantees.