Help!. Someone's spaming my vb?

[Bassam]

Hi.. Although my page is supposed to be ideal, I keep receiving this message whenever I run index.php3, I get this message:


Warning: Can't connect to local MySQL server in admin/db_mysql.php3 on line 31

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

What seems to be the problem?

[JimF]

Why is that spam? It looks like a perfectly legitimate error message to me.

-jim

[Bassam]

Wrong subject title, sorry :(

So where to start to fix this error?

[Me2Be]

That doesn't look like spam - you have an error somewhere.

Next time it happens, view source and post it here and we'll be able to help you

[Bassam]

The board used to be working fine. Here's the source code:

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<b>Warning</b>: Can't connect to local MySQL server in <b>admin/db_mysql.php3</b> on line <b>31</b><br>

<!-- Database error in vBulletin: Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error:
mysql error number:
Date: Monday 04th of December 2000 06:27:40 PM
Script: /vb/forum/index.php3

[Mike Sullivan]

Your MySQL seems to be down. You either need to start it yourself or talk to your hosting people.

[Martin]

I just got this error at my board when the server was being slammed (about 130 active users). I resubmitted and it worked fine.

I lowered my mySQL connections the other day in my contuing effort to tweak my settings, so it's possible your connections are set too low like mine were.