getting "Too many open links" warning on some mysqli tests

Hi, When running the mysqli tests in sequence, I keep getting on some of the tests, the following error: Warning: mysqli::real_connect(): Too many open links (1) in /var/www/php-5.3.3/ext/mysqli/tests/connect.inc on line 125 When running the same set of tests with the same order, usually the same set of tests would fail. Changing the order of the tests execution results in a different set of tests to fail. Furthermore, running solely a few failed tests makes them all pass. Things we tried to do: 1) increase max_connections=500 on the mysql server side 2) tweaking mysqli settings as suggested in http://bugs.php.net/51605 Any ideas? did the fix to the problems described in http://bugs.php.net/51605 go into php 5.3.3? Using: php 5.3.3 with mysqli 5.0.83 on ubutnu 10.04 mysql server 5.0.22 on CentOS 5 thx, Eyal