Hello.
>queries will likely be spaced out by hours or days (idle disconnect?)
How long does it take to establish a new connection? If the time
is large enough, may be you should make a temporary connection and
close it after timeout. If you deside to use a persistent connection,
don't forget about xxx_timeout variables.
Tommy McNeely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (REPOST: I never got my original post, or any answers, so I am
> reposting, assuming it was lost in the mail)
>
> Hi,
>
> I apologize in advance, I am sure this question has been asked dozens
> of times, but my searches came up empty.
>
> I am building an IRC based application "bot" (using libmysql) .. that
> will take commands from users (!mybugs, !mybugs KEY !newbugs, !bug ID,
> etc), do
> SQL queries and of course dump formatted results back to the channel.
> Currently its setup to open a single DB connection at initialization
> and use that connection over and over... would it be better or worse to
> have it open/close a connection for each "command" in the way a web app
> would?
>
> Some things to keep in mind :)
>
> - IRC server/services bot is half way across the US from the mySQL
> server (connection reliability?)
> - queries will likely be spaced out by hours or days (idle disconnect?)
> - when one person does a query, its almost assured that there will be
> 10 more within 10 seconds, its contagious or something :)
>
> - I would *like* to do SSL (still studying how to do that), so that
> will most certainly increase the mysql_real_connect() time?
>
> Does the client library maintain a "pool" of connections or something
> like that?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tommy
>
>
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