[axxs-sysadmin] too many connections error

[Dave Fregon]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 18:13 +1100, rachel kitchener wrote:
> hey dave,
> hows it going? we've been setting up the website for shifting space(s)
> (the co-op network), not sure if you've been reading the minutes or
> not... am setting it up in drupal in a folder on
> constructivecriticism.net/other/coopcoop/ until we get a domain.

Yep, I have followed the minutes, I was actually aiming to get down
there for the next meet, but doesn't look like I will make it, so I send
my apologies re that :\

I've cc'd the axxs-sysadmin list here, in this regard, just to keep
other sysadmins informed of these following issues :

> I'm getting this error about "too many connections" which is crashing
> the whole site, second time its happened now. It seems to fix itself
> after a while, but it generally happens after I've been working on it
> for a few hours. Most of the documentation on the drupal site seems to
> think this error is caused by persistent database connections
> (pconnect), but since drupal 4.6, drupal hasnt used pconnect, so thats
> not it. There seems to be a whole list of ways to tune mysql for
> drupal on this page -  http://drupal.org/node/51263. 
> any ideas?

I think there is just a lot of sites on the server atm, with large hits,
a lot of the Indymedia's.

We are in the process of getting really close to ordering a second
server, where the high traffic sites, and those not really needing the
end-user support Plesk provides them, will be moved off onto it. This
should massively improve the performance of the current box.

It's not you, there's a huge amount of traffic atm on axxs.org, and we
are flat out getting that sorted atm.

Dave

> thanks,
> rachel
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