On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 10:08 +1000, Keith Hopkins wrote: > Assuming it is at least 4.x: > > It should be "max_connections=250" (drop the set-variable=) > > re: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html > I tried everything but for some reason mysqld_safe does not read my.cnf. So I resorted to manually adding '--max_connections=250' to the mysqld command line.