"Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > how many connections do you get from a show processlist in mysql?
It looks right, show processlist counts connections * processes, even during a stress test. > is it possible that some scoping issue had the connect occuring > during prefork, instead of postfork, and mysql is dying from apache > trying to do everything via 1 persistent connection? > startup.pl uses ->connect_on_init. Like I say I think I'm cool now I've hit the server with over 100,000 requests on different parts of the site and not one hang yet. I couldn't even do "ab -n 100 ..." without it hanging before. trwww