Bug #4549: MySQL pconnect

From: jeff@spiderinternet.com Operating system: BSDI 4 PHP version: 3.0.14 PHP Bug Type: MySQL related Bug description: MySQL pconnect mysql_pconnect is creating a new connection to mysql when it is run on a child process that doesn't already have a connection to the mysql server. We are running Apache 1.3.11 with a minimum of 50 child processes due to the amount of traffic and have been able to replicate this on another server as well. Eventually it creates too many persistent connections and overloads the mysql server. We have turned off mysql.allow_persistent in the php3.ini but find this to be a workaround and not a fix. Please let us know what you know about this. Thanks, Jeff