[ hope this isn't a double-post, my previous msg didn't seem to make it. ]
In the mod_perl docs (http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/overview/overview.html) I found the following: "The Apache::DBI module implements persistent connections for 1.0, but may result in each child maintaining its own connection, when it is most often the case that number of connections is never needed concurrently. The TIPool API provides a mechanism to solve this problem, consisting of the following methods:..." Is there anyway of achieving/simulating this behavior with 1.x and Apache 1.3x? I've searched extensively for an answer but can't find anything. Would reverse proxying the traffic through proxy servers to a lesser number of machines performing the database connections be viable? The problem, in the current config, is that every time the number of web machines increase, you add that number of child connections to the database, despite the fact that they all aren't required concurrently. Anyone dealt with this issue? Thanks very much. John
