So all-in-all, leaving to scope to clean up is okay?

I've recently seen some '99' MySQL errors, which after a little googling appears to be related to too many TCP connections, strange that a script was hitting this limit and not the mysql connection limit first, but I digress.

I've attempted to use Apache::DBI in the past to keep persistent connections but it caused more headaches at the time, so I've always steered clear, and we'll be moving to Fast::CGI/Lighttpd soon anyway, what's similar in a fastCGI env?

I think I'll stick with letting Perl's scope do the work of disconnecting, thanks for making me feel a tad more relaxed in doing so.