I just issued a "show status" query and the numbers are what MySQL returns. Strange.
Failed attempts (aka aborted_clients) : 8154 Aborted (aka Aborted_connects): 319 Total (aka Connections) : 4626 So phpMyAdmin is basing the % calculations on these numbers, that's why we see the weird percentage. The aborted_clients and the aborted_connects concern me, but the applications seem to be working fine! I found the following: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/communication-errors.html My scripts are using mysql_pconnect(), so I don't call mysql_close() (they list not calling mysql_close() as a possible cause for seeing Aborted_clients increment.) They also said..."The max_allowed_packet variable value is too small or queries require more memory than you have allocated for mysqld. See Section A.2.9, "Packet too large". I haven't tested this but we never encountered this when we were testing with large data in development. I'm looking at the data heavy tables in production and they average 140K per row...which is not even close to the 1MB max_allowed_packet default limit. Any ideas? Anybody else encounter this? -James
