Too Many Connections

[kkonline]

Hi everyone!
I am using Joomla 1.0.x and have ISPconfig Installed on my vps server. However since past few days I get the following message when accessing phpmyadmin

phpMyAdmin - Error

#1040 - Too many connections

and on the homepage I get
Joomla! Logo
Site-Name
This site is temporarily unavailable.
Please notify the System Administrator
Could not connect to the database server

Previously every thing was fine suddenly this happened what can be done?

[falko]

The default value for max_connections is 100. Try another value in your my.cnf, e.g.
max_connections = 200
(goes into the [mysqld] section of my.cnf) and restart MySQL.