Benchmarking Performance of node.js (cluster) with mysql pools : Lighttpd + PHP?

Question

Edit(2): Now using db-mysql with generic-pool module. The error rate has dropped significantly and hovers at 13% but the throughput is still around 100 req/

Answer 1

Have you enabled APC with PHP?

Can you try to enable persistent connections with PHP? e.g.

$conn = new mysqli('p:localhost', 'root', 'password', 'v3edb2011');