Persistent Connections

[Erik]

My ISP recently decided (or perhaps noticed for the first time) that persistent connections to the MySQL database they provide was something that would only ever be used for the purpose of abuse, and so they have disallowed this.

Since then I've been getting database errors on a relatively constant rate of 2-20 a day, at least that's how many emails I get. In any case, is there a way to change things so that it does not use persistent connections now that things are all ready set up?

[Steve Machol]

You change this setting in your config.php file:

// use persistant connections to the database
// 0 = don't use
// 1 = use
$usepconnect = 0;