ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
> If anyone has any ideas or knowledge of this table in
> MediaWiki, or in general with MySQL and can provide some insight here on
> howw to fix this more permanently... or any other suggestions,

In addition to controlling the number of open connections to MySQL,
introducing a reverse proxy server could help this situation.

If the current system configuration is like this:

 Internet ---> Wiki server

a proposal could be:

 Internet ---> reverse proxy server ---> Wiki server

There are many reverse proxy server available. One of them might be
Squid, http://www.squid-cache.org/ . Apache web server itself has it,
too.

Wiki pages are dynamically produced when a user request to browse it.
In most cases, however, requests are a read-only access. Therefore,
a result cache system could help this type of situation. MediaWiki
is also capable of result cache, but it is implemented in collaboration
with a back-end database server.

If a reverse proxy server is introduced, slightly tuning both servers
might be needed since from Wiki server's perspective of view, originating
IP address is not a user's IP address but a reverse proxy server's one.
The proxy server should append some extra HTTP headers describing a real
IP address and the Wiki server should recognize them. Apache's reverse
proxy module can do that. Squid, ... I am not sure.

Regards,
Tora

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