I guess the wizards that run this thing know all about this, but just in case - I'm getting HEAPS of troubles these last few days. Not just the usual slowdowns and outages, a different one. The most common error message looks like this:
Warning: Too many connections in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/w/DatabaseFunctions.php on line 26 Could not connect to DB on 127.0.0.1 Too many connections If this error persists after reloading and clearing your browser cache, please notify the Wikipedia developers.
It's not my browser, because I've had it so far under: Windows 2000 with SP3 with Opera 6.05, Mozilla 1.3B, IE 6.0 & Netscape 4.04, and also on a different machine at a different location on ECS (OS/2 4.5, sort of) with Mozilla 1.3B. Last night the 'pedia was unusable for quite a few hours, then it was back again tonight.No problems connecting to other sites, only the 'pedia. Being in Australia, most of my connect time is off-peak, while the USAians are all asleep. Except the real addicts, of course.
I guess it's a known problem, but I thought I better mention it just in case.