FWIW with peak users of 250, regularly at 150 users online, plus hundreds more hitting our non-forum pages and another application (phpAdsNew - serving ads on eveyr page we deliver) hitting MySQL, our max connections to MySQL from extended-status is 79. I set our max connections in my.cnf to 150, and we're nowhere near that limit. The default is 100.
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