According to Ryan, Aaron:
> We found that we are quicking using up the max connections to the MySQL
> database
> and when we raise the max connection, the performance gets worse. What was
> MySQL designed
> to handle, should it be able to handle 2000 connections, or is that outside
> the scope
> of the design of the server.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences with scaling.
Have you already taken the step of setting up a non-mod_perl proxy
front end and avoiding sending any unnecessary requests (images,
static html, etc.) to the database-connected backend? If not, you
may be able to reduce the number of connections you need by a
factor of 10 or so.
Les Mikesell
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