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Asked: 2026-05-28T03:21:35+00:00

By default in Resque the parent process forks and the children processes create a

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By default in Resque the parent process forks and the children processes create a new connection to the database.

This can work, but if you have dozens of workers, MySQL can’t keep that many connections opened and starts throwing errors.

What would be the solution to have the children use the MySQL connection of their parent?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Unfortunately there isn’t a safe way to share the MySQL connection from the parent to the children. I think you have two options to consider:

    1. The easiest solution is to tune your MySQL server so that it can accept more connections (ie: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/too-many-connections.html).
    2. Look at alternatives to Resque and/or designs (ie: beanstalkd, Redis, etc) that allow you to avoid creating multiple connections to the MySQL server.
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