Quoting Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, but what does it tell you on the first connection AFTER startup? > It should say whether it's making a new connection or not.
Here's the complete debug output which suggests that the connection during startup is reused for the first request. On server start: ---------------- 20097 Apache::DBI skipping connection during server startup, read the docu !! 20097 Apache::DBI push PerlCleanupHandler 20097 Apache::DBI need ping: yes 20097 Apache::DBI new connect to 'foo:bar...' 20097 Apache::DBI disconnect (overloaded) On first request: ---------------- 20099 Apache::DBI need ping: yes 20099 Apache::DBI already connected to 'foo:bar...' 20099 Apache::DBI PerlCleanupHandler --Tobias