Gail, I know the list has already recommended allowing more connections but the bigger question is what is sucking them all up. Even with 1000 connections things like apache can only use the number of connections that there are processes (* the number of connections used within each process). As a fast workaround, increase the connections but for a long term solution you really need to find out what the problem is, now how to work around it. Gary
________________________________ From: Kinney, Gail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 9/19/2008 8:33 AM To: 'mysql@lists.mysql.com' Subject: too many connections Hello, We have MySQL 4.0.14 and have just gotten an error: too many connections. we can't connect to our site using MySQL admin. Please help. Gail Kinney Webmaster UC Denver [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
