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

[Nicolas Thierry-Mieg]

On 09/13/2019 01:46 PM, Steve Trevanion wrote:
> 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.
>>
 > Hi Nicolas,
 >
 > We've identified and fixed the problem and the server should be 
usable now.
 >
 > Regards,
 >
 > Steve
 >


Thanks for your replies, it's good to know the problem is probably not 
on my side.
I am still getting the same error messages, but I'll keep trying.