Re: Why use persistent connections? || Data driven site

I stopped using pconnect. Don't see the sense in it. Why take the chance? http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-pconnect.php <blockquote>Warning Using persistent connections can require a bit of tuning of your Apache and MySQL configurations to ensure that you do not exceed the number of connections allowed by MySQL.</blockquote> Search also for "consistency" and read that note. Begin using: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php I had real trouble with this on a Windows server once. I stopped using pconnect. Too many connections. Crashed my server more than once. # $link = mysql_pconnect($MyHost,$MyAccount,$MyPass); $link = mysql_connect($MyHost,$MyAccount,$MyPass); ... mysql_close($link); > Should we be using persistent connections, or are we better off opening and closing connections > on each query?