Hi. I use persistent connections opened from php scripts. For what I read in the manual, when a client try to connect to the same server, same database , same user, same password, if a persistent connection is already open, it should use that mysql link, never open another persistent connection. >From my office, I execute the php script a couple of times from 2 or 3 different computers and this is what I get running mysqladmin: +------+--------+-----------+--------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+ | Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info | +------+--------+-----------+--------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+ | 1929 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 221 | | | | 1931 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 13 | | | | 1932 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 46 | | | | 1934 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 32 | | | | 1937 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 159 | | | | 1939 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 23 | | | | 1941 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 55 | | | | 1942 | delfos | localhost | delfos_hotel | Sleep | 50 | | | | 1947 | root | localhost | | Query | 0 | | show processlist | +------+--------+-----------+--------------+---------+------+-------+------------------+ I have 9 more databases which are used the same way, so, I have generally 80 mysqld processes running in my poor little pentium processor, each one of them uses the 4.1% of my RAM. How can I solve this problem?? (without using no persistent connections). I'm using RedHat Linux 6.2 mysql: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin Ver 8.0 Distrib 3.22.32, for pc-linux-gnu on i686 TCX Datakonsult AB, by Monty Server version 3.22.32 Protocol version 10 Connection Localhost via UNIX socket httpd: Server version: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) Server built: Nov 8 2000 11:11:59 Server compiled with.... -D EAPI -D HAVE_MMAP -D HAVE_SHMGET -D USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD -D USE_MMAP_FILES -D USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/apache" -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/apache/bin/suexec" -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid" -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/httpd.scoreboard" -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/httpd.lock" -D DEFAULT_XFERLOG="logs/access_log" -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log" -D TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types" -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf" -D ACCESS_CONFIG_FILE="conf/access.conf" -D RESOURCE_CONFIG_FILE="conf/srm.conf" php PHP Version 4.0.4 Build Date Jan 29 2001 Configure Command './configure' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' Server API Apache Virtual Directory Support disabled ZEND_DEBUG disabled Thread Safety disabled php-mysql: Active Persistent Links 8 Active Links 8 Client API version 3.22.32 Thanks in advance. Sam. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php