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I'm connecting to a MySQL database in pythonanywhere via MySQL Workbench and am getting exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource error.

When I log into pythonanywhere website and look at the dashboard and console list, there aren't any consoles running and no processes listed for the database and CPU is at 0%, yet I keep running into this error.

Even though there are no other consoles running, if I try to create a new MySQL console on the website, I get the same error.

I haven't encountered this before, is this something systemic with pythonanywhere right now or is there somewhere else I can look to kill existing connections?

Thanks!

On the "Consoles" page, the "Running processes" table only shows running console processes (and, for legacy reasons, those relating to Jupyter/IPython notebooks). Code that is running as part of scheduled/always-on tasks has a separate process list, on the "Tasks" page, and (unfortunately) there's no listing for website processes.

Right now I can see only three connections to your MySQL database instance; two from consoles and one from a scheduled task. My guess is that some of the rogue ones that were causing problems earlier have timed out. Unfortunately that means I can't say where those were coming from, but if it happens again, perhaps you can look at the task processes and see if there's something running there that should not be?

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