Hey All, Can anyone provide some guidance as to what the practical connection limits to MySQL 5.1/5.5 are under linux?
We're running a ruby on rails application that establishes 50 to 100 connections to our database upon startup resulting in around 1,000 persistent db connections. I've been told to expect anywhere from 5 - 10x our current transaction volume and I'm trying to predict where we're going to top out. The servers are pretty beefy so I don't have a problem reserving memory for connections if that's what it takes but was more concerned about other problems that might be caused by having so many connections. I have started looking at doing connection concentration using MySQL Proxy Funnel but it doesn't look like it's been updated in a while so I'm not sure how far I'll get. Thanks
