As you probably know PHP “mysql” extension supported persistent connections but they were disabled in new “mysqli” extension, which is …. Persistent connections were added to PHP during times of MySQL 3.22/3.23 when MySQL was simple enough so you could recycle connections…
Comment: Why do you need many apache children ?
… wrote at PHP Connections a while back http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/11/12/are-php-persistent-connections-evil/ In reality I think persistent connections are good thing… if they are implemented properly. For example in Java World the close relative of persistent connections – connection pooling…
Post: Debugging sleeping connections with MySQL
… MySQL connections quicker than you expected but it also frequently indicates serious problems in the application. If you do not use persistent connections and you have connection in Sleep stage for 600 seconds what could it… know any debugger which can connect to PHP process or apache with mod_php and provide backtrace in PHP terms not the one for…
Post: Wishes for new "Pure PHP" MySQL driver
… you should have seen announcement by MySQL to develop pure PHP driver. If not – Here is FAQ . I’m to meet… your application and caching them. Persistent Connections Ajax applications with frequent case of one query per request make persistent connections relevant again. Automatic load…
Post: PHP Sessions - Files vs Database Based
… one of our customers. If you use file based sessions PHP will lock session file for whole script execution duration, which… based session behavior with MySQL Sessions ? If you have dedicated connection to session database and use Innodb tables for your session… you do not use persistent connections you even do not have to release lock – as soon as connection is closed the lock is…
Post: Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications
… also note for many PHP applications abstraction layer is not the main performance problem, also benefit from persistent connections can be much more… which may do very little work and formating, so database connection may become the issue. Caching should be good help in… growth it will however start to crawl. So developing you PHP applications use test database with reasonable amount of data in…
Comment: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
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Comment: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
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Comment: Are PHP persistent connections evil ?
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