1. Check the default max connections
Log into MySQL command line tool and run the following command to get the current default max connections supported by your database server.
mysql> show variables like "max_connections";
2. Increase Max Connections
There are two ways to increase MySQL connections. Here’s the command to update max connections to 200 via MySQL command line tool without restart.
mysql> set global max_connections = 200;
The max you can set this variable too is 10000
