Re: Re: Subject: Large PHP/Database driven site & scalability(fwd)

So what is so horrid about mysql_connect? Isn't the whole point of using a stateless connection protocol (like HTTP) to handle a high number of concurrent users with a limited number of connections? Why try to force your backend to do something your frontend (apache) wasn't designed for? "Eric Peters" <egpeters@u.washington.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.A41.4.21.0007190915040.126148-100000@dante25.u.washington.edu... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:07:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Eric Peters <egpeters@u.washington.edu> To: Michael Teter <michael_teter@yahoo.com> Cc: David Sklar <sklar@student.net>, php-general@lists.php.net, adam@ecamp.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Subject: Large PHP/Database driven site & scalability checkout www.myecamp.com in addition to profile information, we also have "games" that kids can play online - and they collect "ePoints" which they can trade in for prizes we need a point-by-point auditing so we can catch the cheaters and addition to ad sampling (which we are some what doing) we are trying to make it more profile based content distribution - to match the content for the person right now for a more immediate solution we would like to finance an entire apache server connection pool for hte mysql_pconnect's rather than having the mysql_pconnect based upon the apache children Eric On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Michael Teter wrote: > what kind of data are you storing? > > the only thing I can imagine that would generate that > volume of data is some sort of high rate data > sampling. > > I'm very curious. there are very few cases where > anyone should need a table with more than a few > million rows. > > michael > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net