Who's online causes "TOO MANY CONNECTIONS" error

edited February 2012 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

hi, as my site continue to grow http://www.txtmyt.com im beginning to have problems with connection errors. i've observed that if there are atleast 20 users online, i get error like "too many connections public_html/xxxx.php . did anyone have encountered same issue and resolved it ? please help......

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  • too many connections error if im not mistaken is coming from mysql.

    have you checked your "max_connections" system variable of you mysql?

  • hbfhbf MVP
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    freeeeemind said:
    hi, as my site continue to grow http://www.txtmyt.com im beginning to have problems with connection errors. i've observed that if there are atleast 20 users online, i get error like "too many connections public_html/xxxx.php . did anyone have encountered same issue and resolved it ? please help......

    make sure you set the refresh time for online users to a reasonable amount (a couple minutes) otherwise the timer based ajax callbacks will slam your web server.

  • 422422 MVP
    edited February 2012

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