Re: Connection Pooling

> I'd be interested to hear why you need connection pooling for a MySQL > environment though. Connection pooling is always going to be slower than > having dedicated connections, and MySQL connections are very > lightweight. In that case, why use persistent connections at all? If they are not shared per server, then they can keep more connections open, and therefore more threads running on the MySQL server, unnecessarily. Multiply persistent connections * number of apache processes per server * number of web servers in the farm. Only a fraction of the corresponding threads on the MySQL server will actually be needed and doing anything. In the mean time they do take up resources. Sincerely, Steven Roussey Network54.com http://network54.com/?pp=e