I give up.
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Noo, don't give up, Kristen.
Hang in there. Rob's in geek Sherlock Holmes mode, which is all for the good.
I now suspect that the problem isn't so much too many connections, as too many MySQL threads running at the same time.
Just to be clear to the non-techies (and even some of us techies), Rob, you're not talking about threads in the sense of Natter, Bitches, etc. You're talking about threads of instructions to the database, or something similar, right?
Yes, I'm talking about threads of instructions to the database. Boy I wish I'd thought of that potential area of confusion up front.
Yeah, he mean threads as in the technical term, which is like one instance of a program running -- the details are a) not so important and b) going to be badly explained by me, so never mind.
However, the tech guy says it's connections, not threads, so we need to focus on addressing what he sees as the problem. He calls the shots.
edit: Or what Rob said.
Is it total number of connections over a period, or max concurrent connections that they are concerned about?
I think it's the # of connections open at that "moment", but I'll double check.
Yup, as I recall it was max concurrent connections that are the deal.
Do we know when they changed the wait_timeout from the default to five minutes? Was that after the last time the server fell over and caught fire?
This may have been reported already, as it happened on August 21, but just in case...
erikaj "Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies" Aug 21, 2003 10:58:03 am PDT
juliana "Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies" Aug 21, 2003 11:04:41 am PDT
These posts are not separated.