General Error received while accessing forum

[PCHeintz72]

More a FYI than anything else.

Received the following at 11:52pm EST Sunday, and could not get in for an hour or so...

General Error

SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Too many connections [1040]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

[Yando]

Received the same error around the same time I think but I was only locked out for a min or two

[PCHeintz72]

Forum is currently acting slow. But that is not what I'm posting about.

I just got the general SQL error again... BUT, this time it was on a specific thread in the search section, not access overall in the forum... turned out if I clicked on the updated post icon link (which in theory for any thread should take to the 1st unread post), it would give the error, if I clicked on the thread link leading to the first post, it would not give the error and went to the post properly. What is weird is in theory, those should be pointing to the same post in a new thread with 1 post.

[Sunshine Temple]

Very strange. I'll forward to Stacy to see if she has any ideas.

[Stacy]

I occasionally get a notice from the host about an SQL query timing out, and every time it's a basic SELECT query that should only take a few seconds or something. I'll try to optimize the tables, if that'll help, but I'm thinking it's a problem with someone else on the server overtaxing MySQL.