Chris wrote: >> "Happening at the same time; simultaneous." >> >>> 100 people come to your website - that's still going to be 100 >>> connections to the database, regardless of where the results come >>> from. >> >> But if that is one every hour for a hundred hours, your max >> concurrency is 1. > > I'm talking about "now" - not over any time span. 100 connections at > the same time. If you get 100 people to your website at exactly the > same time, the query cache may be used - but you're still going to > have 100 connections to your database. For a while, yes. I don't believe there is any sense in talking about server load, number of connections, caching and concurrency without talking about over how long. When you think length("now")==0, you can have an infinite number of connections. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php