MySQL max. connections - where to set?

[AlexMcCann]

Hi

How/where can i set max. nr. of connections for MySQL?

Thank you for your help

Alex

 

[smtalk]

/etc/my.cnf Use max_connections for that

 

[AlexMcCann]

thanks

could you please provide me with some more details - too bad it is not in DA under "file editor"

thanks

 

[AlexMcCann]

is it possible that i dont have /etc/my.cnf?

 

[jackc]

yes, default there is no /etc/my.cnf
just create one
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132

 

[AlexMcCann]

thanks a lot

this is what i am using now
- hopefully it will work a lot better
(i have p4 duo core with 2gb ram)

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
skip-locking
skip-innodb
skip-networking
safe-show-database
query_cache_limit=1M
query_cache_size=64M ## 32MB for every 1GB of RAM
query_cache_type=1
max_user_connections=200
max_connections=1000
interactive_timeout=10
wait_timeout=20
connect_timeout=20
thread_cache_size=128
key_buffer=256M ## 128MB for every 1GB of RAM
join_buffer=1M
max_connect_errors=20
max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=1024
record_buffer=1M
sort_buffer_size=2M ## 1MB for every 1GB of RAM
read_buffer_size=2M ## 1MB for every 1GB of RAM
read_rnd_buffer_size=2M ## 1MB for every 1GB of RAM
thread_concurrency=4 ## Number of CPUs x 2
myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
server-id=1
log_slow_queries=/var/log/mysql-slow-queries.log
long_query_time=2
collation-server=latin1_general_ci

[mysql.server]
user=mysql

[safe_mysqld]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid
open_files_limit=8192

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer=64M
sort_buffer=64M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer=64M
sort_buffer=64M
read_buffer=16M
write_buffer=16M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout