Re: increasing max_connections

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 05), Joe Hyde said:
> in DuBois' book, "MySQL",  page 440, he states that you may increase
> max_connections by:
> 
> mysql -O max_connections=300
> 
> for example.
> 
> But, it won't do that.
> 
> I have searched for my.cnf as well on my FreeBSD box and can't find
> it. Someone said earlier it was in /etc ??

mysqld checks /etc/my.cnf and /var/db/mysql/my.cnf on startup.  My
my.cnf has:

[mysqld]
set-variable = max_connections=300


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	Dan Nelson
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