Hiya ! I run a website with a PHP and MySQL driven front & backend. The sites hits increase day by day, and today I got the messege: too many mysql connections .. well I thought, just check the my.conf .. But there is no :( I have MySQL v.8.21 Distrib 3.23.40 installed, with the RPMs given @ mysq.com ! The whole machine is running RedHat 7.1, and since the CPU usage is still low: 9:22am up 11 days, 11:40, 1 user, load average: 0.87, 0.54, 0.33 I guess the server can still handle much more :) Yes, so where I can setup the max_connection settings ? Should I create a my.conf for that matter ? and if, in which style the file has to apear ? (maybe you can give me a link to an example) I already thought the max_connection info maybe in the mysql DB in the Database named mysql, but in this database, everything is empty, but the table user .. thx for your help ! Cya ! Daniel Urstöger