At 08:04 PM 9/5/02 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > >I use persistant database connections and I wonder, if one connection is > >always in use by one page or by more? > >Each thread will end up having a connection. > >Actually, it will have a connection for *each* username/password combination >used to connect, if you have multiple MySQL users in mysql_pconnect(...)
<snip> >More Apache children ==> More connections >More MySQL username/passwords ==> More connections > >I assume a very large ISP with hundreds of customers has to: > >A) Give them all a common/shared username/password, *OR* >B) Throw in a *LOT* of RAM to handle all the connections C) Ban persistant connections. They are great if you only have one site on a server, but too costly when there are many different username/passwords to the various databases. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
