> Filippo> There must be a problem, then.
> Filippo> It happens to me, often, that I cannot obtain a proc or ext with
mysqladmin
> Filippo> as root.
> Filippo> All accesses are through an unpriv username, I have
max_connections=1000 and
> Filippo> a
> Filippo> ps ax | grep mysqld | wc -l gives me
> >Sometimes something bad happens in a server and it is hard to figure out
> >what is going on because we can not get in. I'd like to suggest a change
for
> >MySQL 4 protocol, such that a connection from localhost can still get
> >through even if there are too many connections.
>
> It is already
