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The situation is: I have one Debian Server running LAMP with one Virtual Host with one Website. My MySQL has only one user from that website.
In this case would I benefit from using a persistent connection?
The PHP documentation seems to advise against persistent connections in any case.
Thanks
Edit: Yes, the MySQL server is on the same machine.
There’s a discussion here http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.mysql/browse_thread/thread/4ae68befe1b488e7/e843f0b9e59ad710?#e843f0b9e59ad710 :
“No, it is not (better). Contrary, using mysql_pconnect() is considered harmful, as it tends to hog the MySQL server with idle connections.”
If you connect via ‘localhost’, the connection will automatically be established via the MySQL socket, which is really cheap anyways.
(Groups link taken from MySQL Persistent Connections)