On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:38:42AM -0600, Kim Albee wrote: > We are trying to optimize mySQL. Right now, the max_connections is set to > 100. We are only able to open 99 concurrent connections to the db, and even > then, some requests are unable to get a connection. We'd like to be able to > scale that up, but mySQL doesn't like what we've done, as it won't start. > > How do we optimize mySQL for connections?
Increase the max_connections variable as described in the manual. > We have moved the mysqld process up on priority (renice -3 -u > mysql). Shouldn't be necessary at all. > We have tried to: specify the max_connections variable. It's > commented out (see below) because mySQL won't start with this > directive. We also tried placing it in the safe_mysqld section, but > it doesn't get recognized when we restart mysql and do a mysqladmin > variables command. What do we need to do to increase this? When MySQL didn't start, what did the error log say? Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 28 days, processed 596,190,310 queries (243/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
