I logged in on command line as root and used commands to set the max_connections
that seems to have worked.
I also see it in GUI through MySQL System Variables
I’m not sure why the settings didn’t take but hopefully at least I have enough connections now.
I’ll double check that I have made the setting persistant.
I tried to use
SET PERSIST max_connections=2000;
but get this:
ERROR 1193 (HY000): Unknown system variable ‘PERSIST’
I see the updated value in config file but on a mysql restart the max_connections returns to 214