Hi,
Last night I started getting a strange error from my MediaWiki installation --
Sorry! The wiki is experiencing some technical difficulties, and cannot contact the database server. User wolfandt_wiki has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections"
The wiki has been running over a month and I've not had this problem before so I wondered if maybe my host had changed something, but they say they haven't --
Max user connections has not been changed. You will want to check your code to make sure that your mysql connections are being closed and not left open as thats the main cause for exceeding that limit of 100 connections.
To be honest I'm always a little suspicious when my host company says that nothing has changed, in the past that has turned out to be false, but other aps I host there, all of which also use MySQL, are and were running just fine and this morning MediaWiki appears to be running fine with no harm to the wiki itself.
Does anyone have any idea what might have caused that error message or how I might avoid it happening again?
Versions --
OS : FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p11 MySQL : Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.16 PHP : 4.3.8 MediaWiki : 1.3.9
URL : http://wolfandturtle.net/Indigo/
Myria