On 31-Mar-2003 Mike William wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. Here's what happened.
>
> > Your pconnects are probably sleeping too long.
>> in /etc/my.cnf:
>>
>>[mysqld]
>> set-variable = wait_timeout=10
>
> I tried this, and it was a mixed bag. On the one hand, the "Can't create
> thread..." error did indeed go away, and max_used_connections and the
> number of sleeping/persistent connections dropped down well below
> 250. However, making this change caused a new problem: on about every
> 50%
> of page loads, the following PHP warning would occur:
>
> Warning: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)
> in
> /www/functions.inc on line 66
>
> Line 66 of that file is a call to mysql_pconnect(). The MySQL user name
> and password hard coded in that file are definitely correct, since the
> error is only happening about 50% of the time and no one is modifying
> this
> file or the grant tables in between.
>
> Interestingly, nothing gets logged to the MySQL error log when this PHP
> warning is generated. I'm not sure whether there are different logging
> levels in MySQL and if I need to make my logging more verbose or
> something,
> but at any rate I can't get any additional information about this error
> from the log.
>
>>If that doesn't take care of it, check your PHP version. Early (~ 2001)
>>PHP4 had some buggy pconnect problems.
>
> I'm using PHP 3.0.18. We have been using the same pconnect() code with
> this same version of PHP for years and this problem started happening out
> of nowhere only yesterday.
>
>>Last resort:
>>Don't use pconnect unless you really --and I mean *really* need it.
>>mysql_connect() is fast enough for just about everything.
>
> I tried changing all PHP calls to mysql_pconnect() to mysql_connect()
> without making any other code changes. Then I restarted MySQL. These
> changes had basically no effect, i.e., both max_used_connections and the
> number of sleeping/persistent connections both shot right back up to
> their
> "ceiling" level of ~250. Any thoughts on this?
>
Strange ...
Ok, put the pconnects back, and try a 20 second wait_timeout.
The 'ceiling' is 'max_connections' either in one of the my.cnf or as
an option in your rc.* scripts.
mysql> show variables like '%connect%';
CHECK TABLES been run ?
What is Apache's MaxRequestsPerChild set at ?
MySQL back_log ?
mysql> show variables like '%back%';
(stabbing wildly in the dark.)
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