From ea2d7a7165401c68dcc4e39b2c06d324aa6ed9b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tomleb <tomlebreux@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 14:51:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Activate the never-go-down-ever-again switch

Don't retain idle connections because they block everybody else.
Increase maximum number of connections to the db.
---
 db/gorm.go | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/db/gorm.go b/db/gorm.go
index 03c59f50..0a45277d 100644
--- a/db/gorm.go
+++ b/db/gorm.go
@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ func GormInit(conf *config.Config, logger Logger) (*gorm.DB, error) {
 		log.CheckError(connectionErr)
 		return nil, connectionErr
 	}
-	db.DB().SetMaxIdleConns(10)
-	db.DB().SetMaxOpenConns(100)
+
+	// Negative MaxIdleConns means don't retain any idle connection
+	db.DB().SetMaxIdleConns(-1)
+	db.DB().SetMaxOpenConns(400)
 
 	if config.Environment == "DEVELOPMENT" {
 		db.LogMode(true)