From: Dan Nelson
Date: March 19 2003 5:38pm
Subject: Re: Process Limit on Linux ?
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In the last episode (Mar 19), Philipp said:
> i just talked about openmosix because i read about shared memory
> segments. my only desire is to make mysql able to spawn 1000-1500
> connections and *not* to tell my client "cant create new thread,
> perhaps out of memory" while 1.5 GB of RAM is only used for caching.
> Is that really possible that mysql is not able to handle this amount
> of connections ?

With appropriate tuning you should be able to handle that amount. Check
the list archives; there have been many posts showing how to adjust
Linux's limits to allow for lots of threads.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped