A reboot is pretty much impossible given the current situation.

I'm having trouble buying into the "it's a code issue" when ita closed this place and it still happened. If the code were truly so buggy that five users could max out our connections, we wouldn't have those three weeks in between when things were just hunky dory.

Yeah, I agree, Kristen.

Huh.

I just got (blink out of reality)

There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.

But not the error string.

I notice I get it whenever someone is posting in any thread.

The standard too many connections, that is.

I get it even when there's no new posts. It's the most insane thing ever.

Tom, I went into mysql to run SHOW PROCESSLIST, and every single time I tried to use the board when I was in, I got connections exceeded. I've never gotten that many connection errors in a row before. I exited, errors stopped. Still, the list only showed show processlist instead.

Here are the max% results:

+-----------------------+------------+
| Variable_name         | Value      |
+-----------------------+------------+
| max_allowed_packet    | 16776192   |
| max_binlog_cache_size | 4294967295 |
| max_binlog_size       | 1073741824 |
| max_connections       | 750        |
| max_connect_errors    | 100        |
| max_delayed_threads   | 20         |
| max_heap_table_size   | 16777216   |
| max_join_size         | 4294967295 |
| max_relay_log_size    | 0          |
| max_seeks_for_key     | 4294967295 |
| max_sort_length       | 1024       |
| max_user_connections  | 100        |
| max_tmp_tables        | 32         |
| max_write_lock_count  | 4294967295 |
+-----------------------+------------+

I exited, errors stopped.

Ah-ha!

Shawn, you're way too bored.

Quit trying to distract us from the TRUTH!

When you connect to MySQL from the command-line, are you using the same username that you use when you connect from PHP?