(I finally braved the 2500 unread posts to get back into general)

It seems something with a recent Apache upgrade broke the BBS from being able to use persistant MySQL connections. The apache process was holding it open, so over time it built up to the limit. I have since disabled persistant connections for the board, and tweaked Apache a bit more, so things should be fixed for now.

I'm going to try and do the update to 6.2 here by the end of the month to gain any optimizations out of the new code. The recent events put the BBS in the spotlight on the box it is hosted on, and thats a bad thing if I want to keep the boards hosted there free.