Terminating idle mysql connections

Question

I see a lot of connections are open and remain idle for a long time, say 5 minutes.

Is there any solution to terminate / close it from server without restarting the

Answer 1

I don't see any problem, unless you are not managing them using a connection pool.

If you use connection pool, these connections are re-used instead of initiating new connections. so basically, leaving open connections and re-use them it is less problematic than re-creating them each time.