[05:17:09] <wm-bb>	 <beef> the connection policy for wiki replicas is a little confusing to me: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_Replicas#Connection_handling_policy
[05:17:10] <wm-bb>	 <beef> the justification for this seems to be that open idle connections are not allowed as they take up resources, but does it prevent my application from having two connections at once, and each of them doing their own jobs and actively querying?
[05:17:49] <wm-bb>	 <beef> I've also read somewhere that apparently the limit is 10 connections
[08:07:27] <dhinus>	 @beef yes the limit is 10 connections per user, but we'd rather people not create pools of 10 connections and keep them active 24/7, because the total number of all users could reach the overall limit which is 250
[08:07:52] <dhinus>	 it is perfectly fine to start a second or third connection to run a job, and terminate it when the job is done