I have written a script that passes a DB handle by ref to a sub in another package. This works fine... BUT I am getting a mysql 'too many connections' error so when I say SHOW PROCESSLIST it says I have 100 sleeping processes. It appears that whenever I execute my script a new sleeping process is created. I have got $dbh->disconnect in the called sub and the main cgi but it seems to make no differance. I call the sub in the other package with 
my $result=Select($id,\$dbh); 
$dbh->disconnect;

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heres the called sub. 
sub SelectProfile { 
     my $id=$_[0]; my $dbh=$_[1];

     my $selectquery = "SELECT *
                 FROM people
                  WHERE id = '$id'";

        my $sth= $$dbh->prepare($selectquery);
        $sth->execute();
        my $rowdata=$sth->fetchrow_hashref;
        $$dbh->disconnect;
     
        
         return $rowdata;
}##END Select
############################################################

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None of my other scripts create these sleeping threads so I reckon it's cos I'm passing the db handle.

In reply to Passing database handles by hakkr

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