Hello, I'm using MariaDB 5.5.33a on Debian Wheezy. I have problems with connections from our PHP Application to MariaDB. Then there is high traffic the concurrent connections goes up to 1700 - 2200. If we have 1700 - 2200 concurrent connections we have sporadic connection drops like: "Can't connect to mysql ....." I have bumped the max_connection to 10000 and set some sysctl variables: echo 55536 > cat /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn echo 10000 > /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_max_backlog echo "1024 65535" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range echo "15"> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout I have also bumped up the open files for the MySQL user. The Mysql user of our application has no user connection limit in mysql.user. The error is still present, does anybody has a idea about it? Thanks! Jonas