diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9bb85484d..b65146303 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel S (7 May 2007)
+- James Bursa fixed a bug in the multi handle code that made the connection
+  cache grow a bit too much, beyond the normal 4 * easy_handles.
+
 Daniel S (2 May 2007)
 - Anders Gustafsson remarked that requiring CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION set to 1.0
   when CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES is used to avoid the problem mentioned below is
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 866fe9e4c..bb94edfc0 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o curl_multi_socket() not "noticing" newly added handles
  o lack of Content-Length and chunked encoding now requires HTTP 1.1 as well
    to be treated as without response body
+ o connection cache growth in multi handles
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -61,6 +62,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Song Ma, Dan Fandrich, Yang Tse, Jay Austin, Robert Iakobashvil,
  James Housley, Daniel Black, Steve Little, Sonia Subramanian, Peter O'Gorman,
  Frank Hempel, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Tobias Rundström,
- Anders Gustafsson
+ Anders Gustafsson, James Bursa
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/multi.c b/lib/multi.c
index c61958ea4..d9d7eb290 100644
--- a/lib/multi.c
+++ b/lib/multi.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ CURLMcode curl_multi_add_handle(CURLM *multi_handle,
        the shared cache every single easy handle had 5 entries in their cache
        by default. */
     CURLcode res = Curl_ch_connc(easy_handle, multi->connc,
-                                 multi->connc->num*4);
+                                 multi->num_easy * 4);
     if(res != CURLE_OK)
       /* TODO: we need to do some cleaning up here! */
       return CURLM_OUT_OF_MEMORY;