Hello.
>queries will likely be spaced out by hours or days (idle disconnect?) How long does it take to establish a new connection? If the time is large enough, may be you should make a temporary connection and close it after timeout. If you deside to use a persistent connection, don't forget about xxx_timeout variables. Tommy McNeely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (REPOST: I never got my original post, or any answers, so I am > reposting, assuming it was lost in the mail) > > Hi, > > I apologize in advance, I am sure this question has been asked dozens > of times, but my searches came up empty. > > I am building an IRC based application "bot" (using libmysql) .. that > will take commands from users (!mybugs, !mybugs KEY !newbugs, !bug ID, > etc), do > SQL queries and of course dump formatted results back to the channel. > Currently its setup to open a single DB connection at initialization > and use that connection over and over... would it be better or worse to > have it open/close a connection for each "command" in the way a web app > would? > > Some things to keep in mind :) > > - IRC server/services bot is half way across the US from the mySQL > server (connection reliability?) > - queries will likely be spaced out by hours or days (idle disconnect?) > - when one person does a query, its almost assured that there will be > 10 more within 10 seconds, its contagious or something :) > > - I would *like* to do SSL (still studying how to do that), so that > will most certainly increase the mysql_real_connect() time? > > Does the client library maintain a "pool" of connections or something > like that? > > Thanks in advance, > Tommy > > -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.NET http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Gleb Paharenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.NET <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
