Persistent Connection in PHP

Hi, I am running php4.0.0 with mysql 3.22.32 and apache 1.3.12 on Solaris 2.7 sparc. It seems to me that the persistent connection feature is not working right for me. I have set the following in php.ini [MySQL] mysql.allow_persistent = On mysql.max_persistent = 5 mysql.max_links = -1 mysql.default_port = mysql.default_host = mysql.default_user = mysql.default_password = However each user still gets more than 5 persistent connections and they are not dieing and just sit there and take up a connection. Is there some reason why a connection would not be reused??? Could this be some library error? I am using Solaris 7 and there are always issues when compiling MySQL with PHP on solaris. What could be causing this weird behavior? I am getting one user open up and open up 60 connections even though it's the same user, same server, same password and the most persistent connections per user is set to 5 (as you can see in the config file). It was suggested that I set the timeout for connections in mysql to a lower number, but that defeats the point of a persistent connection. Plus, it doesn't offer any clue as to why this is going on. Any ideas welcome. Thanks a lot.