On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 05:55, Frank Joerdens wrote: > Yet again, on another note: Has anyone tried DBBalancer from > > http://dbbalancer.sourceforge.net/ > > - which is yet another approach to the problem of connection pooling? > I've been meaning to play with it for some time, but haven't gotten > 'round to it. > > I keep thinking about ways around PHP persistent connections because > IMHO it's a pretty awkward solution. I use it on several production databases, and I have packaged it for Debian. I intend to upload the package into the Debian distribution this month. In my environment it gives around the same performance improvement as persistent connections (5-10 times query performance for small queries) but without the problems of runaway connection levels.
