<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Hi All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Our repository has been receiving a lot of visits lately.​ <b><font color="#ff0000">This impacted badly on the ability of the underlying database to manage the number of connections required for all the visitors</font></b>. After some testing and tweaking we seem to have the situation under control.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The increase in the number visits may be due to the exposure SUNscholar now enjoys, whatever the reason I have updated the following wiki page to reflect the technical steps we took to deal with the new number of regular visitors.</div></div><div><br></div><a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Optimisations/Database">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Optimisations/Database</a><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hg​</div><br></div></div>