I'm running into an issue that is quite annoying and I can't seem to get it fixed. Every so often as I use my cluster I will start getting errors in the nova-api log that say the following:

2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions [req-4f5b00b6-ae2c-4997-85b3-ce3879a8d20d de69db66f61846968edb6eae85f19030 f663d581469341b49372921a5b682e49 - default default] Unexpected exception in API method
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions Traceback (most recent call last):
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/api/openstack/extensions.py", line 338, in wrapped
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     return f(*args, **kwargs)
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/api/validation/__init__.py", line 181, in wrapper
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     return func(*args, **kwargs)
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/api/validation/__init__.py", line 181, in wrapper
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     return func(*args, **kwargs)
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py", line 214, in detail
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     servers = self._get_servers(req, is_detail=True)
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py", line 357, in _get_servers
2017-06-27 13:29:22.210 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     sort_keys=sort_keys, sort_dirs=sort_dirs)
...
2017-06-27 13:29:25.852 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymysql/connections.py", line 393, in check_error
2017-06-27 13:29:25.852 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     err.raise_mysql_exception(self._data)
2017-06-27 13:29:25.852 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymysql/err.py", line 107, in raise_mysql_exception
2017-06-27 13:29:25.852 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions     raise errorclass(errno, errval)
2017-06-27 13:29:25.852 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions OperationalError: (pymysql.err.OperationalError) (1040, u'Too many connections')
2017-06-27 13:29:25.852 1796 ERROR nova.api.openstack.extensions

Now I have increased the max connections multiple times in multiple places:

/etc/my.cnf
#                                                 
# This group is read both both by the client and the server                                          
# use it for options that affect everything       
#                                                 
[client-server]                                   

#                                                 
# This group is read by the server                
#                                                 
[mysqld]                                          
max_connections = 4096                            
# Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks                         
symbolic-links=0                                  

#                                                 
# include all files from the config directory     
#                                                 
!includedir /etc/my.cnf.d

and

/etc/my.cnf.d/openstack.cnf
[mysqld]                                          
bind-address = 192.168.60.9                       

default-storage-engine = innodb                   
innodb_file_per_table = on                        
#max_connection = 4096                            
max_connection = 51200                            
collation-server = utf8_general_ci                
character-set-server = utf8

I am at a lost and need some help. I'm probably ... (more)