Comments on: MySQL Connections Maxed Out

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:54 +0000

I understand point 1. As for point 2, I’m going to check it out. As long as this blog can be accessed, I’m quite fine with it. Thanks!

By: WishBoNe

WishBoNe — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:03:56 +0000

I’m using a shared server. I haven’t checked if there was a sudden surge. Thanks for your tips

By: paikia

paikia — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:44:22 +0000

1. what is your hosting server default max connections. Some hosting servers give quite low connections and can easily hit the limit.

2. maybe some poor wordpress plugins/scripts lead to infinite loop and used up all your connection? Can find out through myPHPAdmin process or SSH shell access if your myPHPadmin still cant access.

By: uzyn

uzyn — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:04:08 +0000

There can be a couple of reasons:

1. Too many visitors at a point in time.
2. Bad WP plugin that hogs MySQL for a long time doing unoptimized table operations.
3. Other reasons causing MySQL connection (with web server) not to terminate.

If you don’t have a surge in traffic, most likely it is due to reason 2.

BTW, this blog is hosted on a dedicated server? If it’s shared hosting then it could simply just due to other accounts on your server.