After looking at some of the factors that can affect this, I think it may
be important to know that most of the connections will be almost idle (in
terms of interacting with the DB). The "users" are perl/dbi scripts which
connect to the DB and spend the vast majority of the time doing things
other than interacting with the DB. So a connection is consumed, but it's
not really working very hard with the DB per-se. I am cleaning up some of
that code by strategically connecting/disconnecting only when a DB
interaction is required. But for my edification, is it roughly true that 2
connections working with the DB 100% of the time is equivalent to 20
connections @ 10% = 200 connections @ 1 % (if you know what I mean) ?
