> From: "Levine, Peter W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:52:03 -0700 > To: "Levine, Peter W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Connections happening too fast? > >> On our development system (SunOS 5.7) my program would 'hang' on occasion >> immediately after a call to dbh->connect. This would be after a longish >> sequence of connects & disconnects to initialize some data files. By >> 'hang' I mean it never returned. A debug statement immediately after >> dbh->connect() would not print. And it always hung in the same place after >> completing just so many connects & disconnects.
>> >> I have to connect & disconnect in my program because we are not using >> mod_perl. I guess I don't understand what one has to do with the other. Typically I call DBI->connect() just once at the beginning of a Perl script, and reuse the handle as many times as I need. >> I was able to 'correct' the problem by adding sleep(3) >> immediately prior to the call to dbh->connect. >> Doesn't sound like much of a workaround.
