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TORON

11-09-2002, 06:20 PM

My site is sending me thousands of emails reporting

Database error in vBulletin :
Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error: Too many connections
mysql error number: 1040

First... how do I stop it? It almost 6000 emails in the last two hours.

What do I change to make it stop reporting errors?

NTLDR

11-09-2002, 07:23 PM

Check the Trouble Shooting forum at vBulletin.com there is a sticky there by Steve Machol which explains the error.

assassingod

11-09-2002, 07:26 PM

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41678

^If ya havent found it yet:)

Erwin

11-09-2002, 07:31 PM

You need to increase the number of database connections allowed on your server. Edit your admin/config.php and set use persistent connection to "0". Then edit your php.ini or get your host to increase database connections.

I suspect your forums has become too busy for your current host. Time to go dedicated. :)

esawdust

11-09-2002, 09:31 PM

We were encountering the same problems... with ADDR.com

Switched over to venturesonline.com and viola... problem solved.

Greg

TORON

11-10-2002, 12:21 AM

Thanks for the help guys... I stopped it after the 6000th email.

Talk about spam......

Reading up and looking for the cause now
Great help thanks.

Dean C

11-10-2002, 08:42 AM

Lmfao my hotmail account would go bust if this happened to me

haha

- miSt

DennisVx

02-10-2003, 06:37 PM

Well something similar to this just happened to me... only that I only got around 1200 emails and my server was only down for around 5 minutes... (I was making some configuraiton changes).

My question is this:

Is there an addon/hack that will PREVENT vbulletin from sending ERROR email after a certain number? after the 50th email, I think I'll get the point and go fix the problem, no need for 5000 ;-)

Carnage540

02-10-2003, 07:19 PM

Yeah, i had that happen to me before. Some idiot kept refreshing over and over again for sh!ts and giggles i guess.....Need to get a hack that says something like "Check back in a bit" or whatever.....You can also edit your admin/config.php and change the webmasters address to like "blah@blah.com" till it gets fixed, i think,