In the last episode (Oct 07), Jon Shoberg said:
> I have a small PHP website that gets a fair amount of traffic.  It's
> a simple layout with two tables. I average about 50 concurrently open
> apache sessions and 40 open mysql connections.  I am calling for
> persistent connections from the mySQL/PHP API.
> 
> But here is the kicker.  Each mySQL thread takes about 41mb!! :(  Can
> anyone point me to resources on optimizing mySQL's memory usage under
> a moderate/heavy load?

Threads have no memory.  You're getting misled by Linuxes threads
implementation, which displays each thread as if it were a separate
process.  They actually share the same block of memory, which is why
they're threads and not processes.

-- 
        Dan Nelson
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