Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 1450

MySQL Proxy FAQ
The server limit is given by the value of the [467] system variable. The default
max_connections
value is version dependent.
16.7.6.31: Would the Java-only connection pooling solution work for multiple web servers?
With this, I would assume that you can pool across many web servers at once?
Yes. But you can also start one proxy on each application server to get a similar behavior as you have
it already.
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