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# petemc

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Closing db connections?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/closing-db-connections/)
 *  Thread Starter [petemc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petemc/)
 * (@petemc)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/closing-db-connections/#post-531643)
 * So my host has persistant connections turned off and PHP should close the connection
   automatically. Even with PHP4? It makes me wonder if theres another issue at 
   hand, or whether my site is too popular for the current package I’m on. I’ve 
   installed WP-Cache and I’ll see how that goes but I guess I need to plan for 
   the future.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Closing db connections?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/closing-db-connections/)
 *  Thread Starter [petemc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petemc/)
 * (@petemc)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/closing-db-connections/#post-531631)
 * Oh. Is there anyway I can do something to fix this?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Closing db connections?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/closing-db-connections/)
 *  Thread Starter [petemc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petemc/)
 * (@petemc)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/closing-db-connections/#post-531629)
 * Its shared hosting so I have no control over that. They say there was a load 
   of “sleeping connections”.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Database issues – max connections](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issues-max-connections/)
 *  Thread Starter [petemc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petemc/)
 * (@petemc)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-issues-max-connections/#post-523284)
 * I’m guessing that there WordPress doesn’t leave any connections open either?

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