[PHP-DB] how expensive is mysql_connect in performance

I'm just getting into some stuff where I seem to be making a lot of mysql_connect and mysql_close calls. I wonder, how taxing is this on the server? Is there any performance test of PHP/MySQL out there I could run on my development or deployment machines? ~ Mike -- Mike Zornek | Project Leader

Re: [PHP-DB] how expensive is mysql_connect in performance

At 22:39 -0400 6/21/02, Michael Zornek wrote: I'm just getting into some stuff where I seem to be making a lot of mysql_connect and mysql_close calls. I wonder, how taxing is this on the server? Not very. MySQL's connection-establishment sequence is pretty efficient. mysql_pconnect() by