Re: Persistent connections or no? Please help, server getting hammer ed.

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Chad Day wrote: > I got linked by a popular site today and am getting positively hammered by > connections. > > I was using persistent connections, as it's a fairly simple database that is > going to get a lot of traffic.. each user views a page with a database > connection required on it about 100 times per user session, so I thought > persistent would be the way to go to cut down on the overhead.. problem is I > got a lot of lingering connections around.. not sure if I should lower > mysql's wait timeout, or if I should be using regular connects and closes > constantly. > > Chad Day > Beach Associates > > When I speak german... I think german in my head... but like...Do skript > kiddies see a w40l3 8uncha 1's and 0's and 3's and 4's and 7's in > their > h34d'5 w43n t43y R +a1k1n6 ? -- SirStanley > If you're using Apache, try keeping the persistent connections and fiddling with the MaxRequestsPerChild setting instead. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>