[ensembl-dev] cant connect to DB with perl API

[Steve Trevanion]

Hi Nicolas,

We've identified and fixed the problem and the server should be usable now.

Regards,

Steve

On 12/09/2019 18:25, Marek Szuba wrote:
> On 2019-09-12 19:09, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>
>> $ perl ./ensemblTest.pl
>> DBI connect('host=ensembldb.ensembl.org;port=3306','anonymous',...)
>> failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'ensembldb.ensembl.org' (110)
>> at
>> /home/nthierry/Software/VariantEffectPredictor/ensembl-vep//Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm
>> line 1770.
> It probably is not you, having just tried talking to the server using
> the command-line client, it is barely responsive. Between that, the fact
> that late last week it was not possible to connect to MySQL on
> ensembldb.ensembl.org at all unless one was extremely lucky, and the
> fact there were ~200 active processes when I looked, my guess is that it
> is simply overloaded.
>