Victor Pendleton said: > What does mysql "show processlist" look like? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 8/2/04 9:16 AM > Subject: Problem with Mysql 4.0.18 + Debian > > Hello: > > I posted this before but I have not gotten a response. I have a > Debian > (woody) server running a good sized database (7.2GB of db files), Mysql > 4.0.18. I am running Apache 1.3.29 + perl and using mysql as the > backend. In my.cnf, I have max_connections=300. > > Here's the problem. I had the site up several days, with everything > running perfectly. Ordinarily there would be about 11 mysql processes > running. However, after a few days of running smoothly, the number of > mysql processes increases to over 170, and the site crashes. Formerly > I'd > get errors like > > DBI connect('yada yada, ...) failed: Too many connections at DB.pm line > 25 > > However once I set max_connections to 300 (default is 90), mysql will > still accept connections, but it is still way too slow to be usable, so > the website becomes unreachable. > > I've read on this list that people running MySQL w/ FreeBSD can have > similar sounding problems. I am wondering if there is a connection. > > I know that the site is getting virtually no traffic, so the problem is > not that it is being overloaded. I have tried this scenario at least a > dozen times, and the same thing always happens. > > Ryan > Are you running mod_perl?
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