While viewing web pages, we sometimes get the following error: "Warning: mysql_pconnect: Link to server lost, unable to reconnect in /home/dratner/includes/common.inc on line 26 ". The offending line is this code: if (!$db = mysql_pconnect("db1", "diadba", "c0s3mST")); This line is in our common include file. It is supposed to create a connection to the database and return an error if the connection fails. It usually works, but sometimes we get the above error. Refreshing the page makes the error go away, but that is not a very good solution, and we need to figure it out before we lauch our site. Configuration: We are running 4.3.0RC2 and MySQL 3.23.53A on Linux 8.0. Our PHP server is connected directly to the MySQL server via a cross-connect cable. So these two machines have a private 100Mb connection used exclusivly for database communication. We are currently developing an auction. Since we are currently in development there are only two or three people accessing the site. We are worried that the problem will get worse when the we launch our application and we have a real work load on the server. I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone could offer. I just can't figure out why we sometimes have trouble connecting, especially with the load on two large servers being so tiny. Don! Briggs dbriggs@driveitaway.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php