[MariaDB discuss] Re: is blocked because of many connection

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Did you restart mariadb after modifying the configuration?

yes

[mysqld] max_user_connections = 250 max_connections = 5000

Yes I am putting it exactly there. If I change max_connections there, I see that change as expected. However if I put there max_user_connections=103, I see 10 in show statement, and 103 in the output of '/usr/sbin/mysqld --verbose --help | grep max| grep connect ' using v10.5.