We are running mysql on a Debian system, so we shouldn't have any of
those windows problems. It's really quite confusing, there were no
mysql errors when we noticed the problem.
The only guess we currently have is to wait until it happens again, and
make sure we dump the stats to further investig
If you are running MySQL on Windows, then I'm wondering
whether you are having a problem with running out of
available ports, for clients to connect to MySQL on.
This may be your problem:
>From the manual, 2.3.16. MySQL on Windows Compared to MySQL
on Unix
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MySQL for Windows has proven it
