Rick,
> François Wautier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Duly noting the near absolute lack of interest in my previous email (Only
> > Devendra Singh responded indicating he had the same problem), I decided
> > to go and figure out things my way.
>
> Good job. I use CDB, and don't know enough about using MySQL with
> vpopmail to find something like that. Unless someone objects I plan to
> put this in HEAD, and suggest it go into the stable branch too.
>
> I like the fact that this patch separates hard errors from soft errors,
> checking first if it can open the database connection at all and
> aborting on failure. It works well with the changes in error handling
> that I am working on.
>
I thought it made sense too.
> I wish I understood the base problem better, I don't know if we are just
> covering up a database problem.
Could be... but is unlikely.
>> You are sure you aren't running out of
> MySQL children at peak loads, right? Being on the border of having too
> many requests for the number of MySQL children allowed could cause what
> you are seeing.
>
I don't really have any load to speak of. And if the problem was that, I think
the client would not connect, not report "Lost connection to MySQL server
during query".
I would also get more complains from the websites not being able to get the
data.
In any case, my simplistic patch does handle that type of problem better.
Cheers,
François
> Even if that turns out to be your real problem I think this is a better
> way to handle opening the database. I have posted the patch on
> SourceFORGE. [967994]
>
> Rick
