Hi,
I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.3-stable with MySQL 3.23.39. My problem
is weird an unpreditable. I have a database driven website which has
several hundred visitors per day. After viewing my logs on a daily
basis, I see a "Unknown database" error appear from time to time. Now,
I also have a script set in cron which accesses the database every so
often an I see the same "Unknown database" error from time to time when
this script is ran. The error is completely spuradic and
unpredictable. Sometimes I go for days without seeing the problem. Not
only that, if I notice the problem immediately and check things out, I
can connect to the database. So within a matter of minutes it goes from
an Unknown database to a
database that is alive and accessible.
I've tried upping the "mbufs", checking the "file descriptors",
"tweaking the mysqld server params", applying "soft-updates", and
"turning off Apache::DBI", nothing seems to work. I've seen at least 2
other mailing list entries where people have the exact same problem.
The only solution I received was to switch to a Linux OS.
I've also read that there is a threading problem with FreeBSD+MySQL on
an SMP machine. I'm running a machine with only 1 processor.
Do you have any idea as to what may be causing this problem and if so,
do you have a suggested solution?
Any help you may be able to give will certainly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Ozette Brown
