[PHP] Persistant Connections and max_connections on mysql

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Rossi
Hi there, I have run into issues on a public production server where I keep running into max connection issues on mysql if I am using peristant connections. Sometimes the machine gets high traffic and I was wondering if there are good reasons to leave them on or off. After turning them off its

Re: [PHP] Persistant Connections

2002-08-14 Thread Nick Oostveen
Persistent connections are typically a good thing to use on high traffic sites as they offer better performance than opening and closing connections for each database request. The reason for this is the overhead used in opening a database connection is actually quite high. While keeping them o

[PHP] Persistant Connections

2002-08-14 Thread John Wards
I am running a website which generates around 100,000 pageviews a day and I am wondering if I stop using persistent conections to the database and use normal open and close conections this would reduce the load onto my server? Most conections are either made through my "main" file or the phorum m