Julian Bleecker wrote:
>
> So, i've poked around quite a bit to determine if there's a way to control
> the number of children that start up with mysqld. Each takes about 2.5%
> of memory, and i'm working on an application that needs to prune where it
> can. Most of the time, the app is fairly standalone, and there aren't
> ever more than 2 or 3 clients attempting to connect to the database (and
> those are very low intensity transactions.)
>
> I've started poking through the source to see if there's some place to
> throttle this, but if anyone has more insight than I, i'd appreciate it
> being shared.
Set "max_connections" to someting like 2 or 3 or 2 or 3 max connections.
-dave