title: Increasing the number of simultaneous request to mysql
body: <p>Recently we changed app server of our rails website from mongrel to passenger [with REE and Rails 2.3.8]. The production setup has 6 machines pointing to a single mysql server and a memcache server. Before each machine had 5 mongrel instance. Now we have 45 passenger instance as the RAM in each machine is 16GB with 2, 4 core cpu. Once we deployed this passenger set up in production. the Website became so slow. and all the request starting to queue up. And eventually we had to roll back. </p>
  
  <p>Now we suspect that the cause should be the increased load to the Mysql server. As before there where only 30 mysql connection and now we have 275 connection. The mysql server has the similar set up as our website machine. bUt all the configs were left to the defaul limit. The buffer_pool_size is only 8 mb though we have 16GB ram. and number of Concurrent threads is 8. </p>
  
  <p>Will this increased simultaneous connection to mysql would have caused mysql to respond slowly than when we had only 30 connections? If so, how can we make mysql perform better with 275 simultaneous connection in place. </p>
  
  <p>Any advice greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:</p>
  
  <p>More information on the mysql server:</p>
  
  <p>RAM : 16GB CPU: two processors each having 4 cores</p>
  
  <p>Tables are innoDB. with only default innodb config values.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>