I dont want to change too many things at once in mysql.cnf... I increased the max # of connections. But does that affect UBB's connection pool? Is the 'too many connections' an error that mysql is reporting to UBB, or is that UBB reporting on itself? If the connection pool system inside UBB is set to 100 it wont matter if mysql is set to 250 or more connections (which is what I have changed it to, up from 100).