Re: passing db persistent connections through different pages

On Thu, 21 June 2001, "Christopher Ostmo" wrote: > The persistence of the DB connection follows the child process that > serves your individual web page request. The first time a child process > requests a persistent DB connection, it will maintain that connection > until the child process dies. The problem is that when you are on a web > site, when you request a page, the page is served and you disconnect > from the child process. The next request to the same site will use one > of the other open child processes - not necessarily (and probably not > usually) the same one. The default configuration of Apache is to keep > 10 spare child processes running at all times. On busy and semi-busy > servers, child processes are created and destroyed regularly. Once the > child process is destroyed, the database connection is destroyed with it. > > The bright side is that the connections are actually persistent, which > means that you will in fact benefit. The down side is that you are not > going to always get the same persistent connection for each request. > Doing so would probably not be possible over a stateless connection > (as HTTP connections are). > > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.persistent-connections.php > Explains this in pretty good detail. > thank you very much, Christopher, I had just submitted a bug (http://bugs.php.net/?id=11614) when I understood what you said (the key words are "you are not going to always get THE SAME persistent connection") bye, --Giuse http://boltthrower.webhop.org Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com