jdbc(loadbalance) completely fills connection pool (3 replies)

Hello. Currently I'm trying to implement load balancing with jdbc driver, so I'm writing connection string like jdbc:mysql:loadbalance://... But I'm encountering such problem: after some navigation through application I get exception "jdbc loadbalance SQLNestedException: Cannot get a connection, pool exhausted" (we are using dbcp (maxIdle), hibernate and we're having max_connections=600 in the both mysql nodes). In that time I ask mysql "SHOW PROCESSLIST" and it shows me about 500 connections. Without loadbalance (therefore for only one mysql node) it returns me alltime about 3-4 opened connections...
I have no idea what's wrong... we're using mysql-connector 5.0.8..
Has somebody any idea? Maybe should I provide more information? Any help or comment would be appreciated...

PS. I'd like to say that I downloaded the last mysql-connectior (5.1.25) and this problem was solved. But I still want to know: is there any solution for this bug for connector 5.0.8? - if no, is there any note about this bug that this was fixed in newer versions? Is there any risk when I will migrate from 5.0.8 to 5.1.25? Thanks!