From the manual - "If you need more connections than the default (100), then you
should restart mysqld with a bigger value for the max_connections variable."
"The maximum number of connects MySQL is depending on how good the thread library is
on a given platform. Linux or Solaris should be able to support 500-1000 simultaneous
connections, depending on how much RAM you have and what your clients are doing."
Like everyone else says, depends what you're doing, and how intensive the queries are.
MySQL is going to be happier with more ram, so that's the main consideration in building a DB server. The disk setup will also make a big difference in performance (you didn't mention how that was setup).
MySQL comes with benchmark scripts that should tell you exactly that. As someone mentioned, counting connections, unless they are persistent, makes little sense. A real benchmark is how many queries in can do per second.
I couldn't possibly know what I'm talking about, I'm completely, absolutely and definitively out of my fucking mind.
i think you should be able to set it at 1024 without any problems.
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