It would also be nice if you provided some actual details of the project. Is it a game, a social networking application, a distributed computing project to solve the age old mystery of seat up or seat down? While I'm sure lack of details may not cause all parties to be disinterested, it really doesn't let people know what to expect when they download and compile your project.

But just a guess, you are probably using thread per connection instead of connection pooling.
This is why I ask Aucti9 at mangos to add a new database thread pool system for us.