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Hey Folks,

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that we have found and fixed a bug 
[1] on master where the number of database connections had increased so 
much that we were starting to hit a "OperationalError 
(pymysql.err.OperationalError) (1040, u'Too many connections')" in the 
gate on some work-in-progress patches. The problem of an increased 
number of database connections goes all the way back to Newton, based on 
when the cell database connecting code was written along with a report 
from at least one operator who has upgraded to Newton.

Upon investigation, we found that the way we were establishing 
connections to cell databases was effectively "leaking" connections and 
we have merged a fix on master and have backports to Ocata and Newton in 
progress [2].

Once we have merged the backports, we'll be releasing new versions from 
stable/newton and stable/ocata with the fix ASAP.

Thanks,
melanie

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1691545
[2] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bug/1691545