Thanks for the two responses.
William Mussatto said:
> Are you running mod_perl?
Yes I am, with Perl 5.8.3.
Victor Pendleton said:
> What does mysql "show processlist" look like?
Here is what it looks like currently, but the system is not in its
"unresponsive" phase right now. I can't force it to go all wonky on me,
it will probably be tomorrow before the process count explodes again.
+----+---------+-----------+---------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info
|
+----+---------+-----------+---------+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| 8 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 0 | | NULL
|
| 71 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 2192 | | NULL
|
| 72 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 2141 | | NULL
|
| 78 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 1503 | | NULL
|
| 79 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 1503 | | NULL
|
| 87 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 741 | | NULL
|
| 88 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 730 | | NULL
|
| 89 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Sleep | 607 | | NULL
|
| 95 | citidel | localhost | citidel | Query | 0 | NULL | show
processlist |
+----+---------+-----------+---------+---------+------+-------+-----------------
Ryan Richardson said:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 8/2/04 9:16 AM
> Subject: Problem with Mysql 4.0.18 + Debian
>
> Hello:
>
> I posted this before but I have not gotten a response. I have a
> Debian
> (woody) server running a good sized database (7.2GB of db files), Mysql
> 4.0.18. I am running Apache 1.3.29 + perl and using mysql as the
> backend. In my.cnf, I have max_connections=300.
>
> Here's the problem. I had the site up several days, with everything
> running perfectly. Ordinarily there would be about 11 mysql processes
> running. However, after a few days of running smoothly, the number of
> mysql processes increases to over 170, and the site crashes. Formerly
> I'd
> get errors like
>
> DBI connect('yada yada, ...) failed: Too many connections at DB.pm line
> 25
>
> However once I set max_connections to 300 (default is 90), mysql will
> still accept connections, but it is still way too slow to be usable, so
> the website becomes unreachable.
>
> I've read on this list that people running MySQL w/ FreeBSD can have
> similar sounding problems. I am wondering if there is a connection.
>
> I know that the site is getting virtually no traffic, so the problem is
> not that it is being overloaded. I have tried this scenario at least a
> dozen times, and the same thing always happens.
>
> Ryan
>
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