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When MySQL starts counting sheep

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

We encountered a situation recently where the number of connections to our MySQL database started creeping up slowly but steadily. Strangely enough all the connections were in sleep mode and the database was not being stressed. The number of connections first reached 30 where it normally stays below 20 and started triggering our monitoring scripts. [...]

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Tags: MySQL · Performance · monitoring