[Mediawiki-l] Strange "Too Many Connections" Error

[Jim Hu]

Just guessing, but I suspect that if you look in your referrer logs,  
you'll find that a search engine was indexing your site at the time.   
If so, you'll need to adjust your robots.txt file.  Note that once  
the spidering starts, some or all of these don't recheck the robots  
file for changes.  I was sufficiently annoyed at the rate MSN was  
indexing my sites so that I just added a code snippet that caused my  
wiki to crash if MSN tries to index it.

Jim

On May 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Andrew n marshall wrote:

>
> I'm running a small, personal, rarely used MediaWiki site.  Actually,
> two, off the same server and database.  Because of lack of PHP 5  
> support
> at my host, I'm using MediaWiki 1.6.10.
>
> Yesterday, one of the two wikis stop working, returning the  
> following error:
>   WeddingWiki has a problem
>   Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
>   Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
>   (Can't contact the database server: Too many connections  
> (10.1.1.12:3309))
>
> Now, if this was really a database problem, then I would expect the
> other wiki to give similar errors.
>   And phpMySQL should have stopped working as well.  But those work  
> just
> fine, and only one wiki is having problems.
>
> Searching, I found two similar errors.  At wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Troubleshooting#Too- 
> Many_Connections_Problem
> is oriented toward contributors, and the error text doesn't quite  
> match
> anyway.
>
> On this list, one other person mentioned the error back in Sept 2005,
> but he was told to just fix his MySQL number of connections.  Again,
> because this only happens in one instance of MediaWiki, I do not  
> believe
> the problem is in the database.
>
> Any ideas out there?
>
>
> Please CC: me on any replies.
>
>
>
> Anm
>
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Jim Hu
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