[support] too many connections

[Richard Archer]

At 9:53 AM -0500 27/12/05, puregin wrote:

>likely is a result of not allowing persistent connections for PHP
>(mysql.allow_persistent =On in php.ini)

In my experience allowing persistent connections causes this problem.
When enabled you have each apache process holding open a connection
to each database that process has accessed. This exponential growth
in idle connections quickly leads to resource exhaustion.

 ...Richard.