I'm getting all the errors that Theodosia isn't getting.

A stab-in-the-dark idea...

Maybe somehow, the board/server doesn't like that we got cute and put fancy font in the new natter title? It's the only thing "different" (well that, and the new--if I read this thread correctly--é in the Sang Sacré header) I can think of, that happened around the time things started going pear-shaped.

ita changed that after we started getting the errors, but I'm all for changing it back just for the sake of ruling things out completely, one variable at a time.

This is so frustrating. Traffic seems pretty slow, (though, hey, what do I know?) so it seems odd to me that we're using up all the connections.

So. Frustrating.

Got my first two errors of the morning just now.

The only time I got an error was when I hit "next". Hitting "read new" did not result in errors.

Stop me if you've done this already, but can you connect to mysql from the command-line and mail me the output to the following queries?

• SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'MAX%';
• SHOW PROCESSLIST;

ita changed that after we started getting the errors, but I'm all for changing it back just for the sake of ruling things out completely, one variable at a time.

I'm sorry DX, I'm not sure which change you mean. Do you mean when she made the html coding that was showing up in the browser window line blinvisible? There were quite a few changes going on to that thread title coding, in the hours leading up to the wonkiness. When I skimmed back, it looks like we put up the thread, then the code was broken and she and Jon fixed that, and then you & Fred got the first errors, but most likely I missed something. Here's what I see wrt chronology:

First Natter 17 Post: Oct 14, 2003 6:38:25 am PDT #1

Natter won't load for Beverly: Beverly "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 14, 2003 6:40:29 am PDT

ita fixes strangely broken title: ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 14, 2003 6:43:24 am PDT (she notes she fixed it in an edited in comment at 6:43:51am)

Jon also notes he fixed it: Jon B. "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 14, 2003 6:46:21 am PDT

Jon fixes it again: Jon B. "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 14, 2003 6:54:43 am PDT

DX gets the first noted "more than 'max_user_connections'" message: DXMachina "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 15, 2003 8:19:24 am PDT

(DX's error message above cites 8:17 am as the error time). I know Fred Pete got an error too, but either he reported it elsewhere, or I'm missing it in BBaBB and Bureaucracy. ita notes Fred got the error too, and also that she "changed the code to strip tags from the t title tag.": ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 15, 2003 9:58:01 am PDT

The error message onslaught starts in earnest: Jess PMoon "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 15, 2003 12:06:11 pm PDT

While I hate to rule anything out, I can say with confidence that the thread title is not not cause of the wonkiness.

ita, I bet Tom would love to see the output from that MySQL status script I gave you the other day.

Cindy, I meant when ita changed the coding for the Title Bar, which involved changing the code for the page. The other changes, that happened earlier, had to do with the format we followed in entering a particular piece of data, i.e., the title for Natter 17.