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Connections Sleeping not disconnecting
Posted by: Nick Arnone
Date: January 24, 2013 02:32PM

I have 2 servers, one runs Windows Server 2000 and the other is a Unix server. The Windows machine runs ASP w/ VB Script. The Unix box has MySQL on it.
The ASP’s call the MySQL for data.
My code will open a connection, do a function, close the connection then set it to Nothing.
The MySQL does not disconnect but goes into sleep command when the Windows Server was to disconnect. I found if I kill a connection on the MySQL, the Windows machine will error out when executing an SQL statement. It was as if I did not open the connection to the database, which is not the case.
Our traffic is heavy, which leaves a lot of connections up on the MySQL server, which in turn slows down the entire system.
If I did not know better, it seems the Window Server thinks a connection still exist even though I have killed the connection both in the program and even though I establish a new connection, the Windows machine seems to skip that part as if it is going to use a current connection.
We set the time out to 2 seconds in the MySQL server. It did time out and close on the MySQL server and then the Windows Machine would error out because I believe it tried to use a connection it thought was there.
I can watch the connections based on ID numbers and I watch as ID connections are used over and over again until they are finally time out and go away.
My Windows Server access the MySQL server several hundred thousand times a day. These connections can really add up and slow the system down.
How do you closes these connections so the Windows Server knows to open a new connection?

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