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Andre Bajew04 Oct 1999 19:16 
Subject:connection failed: telnet access is ok: www access fails frequently but not always
From:Andre Bajew (Baj@TechnologyArt.Com)
Date:10/04/1999 07:16:59 PM
List:com.mysql.lists.mysql

Hi all,

I am hitting following error frequently via the web access but not all of the time: Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to MySQL server

From Telnet I do not ever have a problem connecting and running SQL. From the web I have problems frequently but it seems to be timing related. By that I mean I can wait 10 minutes and hit "refresh" on same screen and then a successful connection occurs and my sql then runs.

From reading posts I found in Newsgroup it so far looks like this can be caused by exceeding max connections (set to 100) but I do not see how I get the # connections at the point in time of failure. How can I tell whether mysql server is hitting max connections? This is through my ISP so I do not have access to modify the settings or mysqladmin (bummer). Also is 100 (their max setting) reasonable? This seems very low to me for a shared server.

Thank you for any help! Andre