Sally,
Ben (Elgg developer) said that we should not see the message "User (dev.)lifework_w has already more than 'max_user_connections' active" on LWPS (Elgg) releases greater than 0.6. The current dev/test LWPS is 0.8.
I believe you said you would be having a teleconference tonight at 5 pm PST. If you would not mind, I would like to request that you ask ALL of your students to do a “load test†tonight on the dev/test system . All they would need to do is access this post from 5 to 5:02 pm tonight and verbally tell you if they saw the above message. After the call, you could login into your dev.lifeworkps.com/sallyg account, access this post and add a comment to tell me what happened.
Thanks,
Pete
11/11, 20%, 2007, 4Q07, hph, lwpspr, max, max users, Message "User lifework_w has already more than 'max_user_connections' active"
http://lifeworkps.com/lwpspr/weblog/2843.html