Hello,

I have been using mysql_connect in a script that display a lot of thumbnails for an album. Each thumbnail is displayed using the code:

<IMG SRC="thm.php?id=some_id ALT="some title">

thm.php use a mysql_connect to the database to access the info about the picture based on the id.

This worked fine. However, the SQL server is located on a different network than the web-server with a firewall between. When I looked into the firewalls log I saw that there was large amount of new connections when someone accessed the page where all the thumbnails was displayed.

I then changed mysql_connect to mysql_pconnect on the scripts and viola... the amount of new connections to the SQL server dropped to only two.

Good, I thought. But later I discovered that the SQL server had a large amount of childs running. I had 50-60 mysqld running on the system. This number was constant to below 10 before I changed to persistent mode.

Any settings in the config file for the sql-server I need to be aware of?

I'm using MyISAM tables .

mysql> select version(); +----------------+ | version() | +----------------+ | 4.1.8-standard | +----------------+