If you are developing Perl applications which will run on many machines simultaneously, you run the risk of opening too many connections to your database at once.
We are currently not completely mod-perl enabled. That is, we have some raw CGI scripts and some HTML::Embperl-stuff running mod-perl-enabled, FWIW.
It is my understanding that DBI::Proxyserver is a method by which to control the number of connections available to the database at one time.
However, I did not see any way of controlling the number of connections it would allow.
Does anyone have any (fairly complete) examples of using database connection proxying?