[mythtv-users] MySQL server has gone away

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/06/2009 09:59 AM, Duncan Brown wrote:
> On 06/11/2009 14:27, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> What is the value for wait_timeout in your my.cnf? It's been my 
>> experience that this variable is more important, since it controls 
>> the length of time that a connection is allowed to remain idle before 
>> the server disconnects. It has to be longer than the execution time 
>> of the longest query.
>>
>> IMHO, a value of 600 (10 minutes) should be plenty. And on a system 
>> where you generally only have a few clients at most, that value 
>> should not result in too many zombie connections.
> At the moment it is whatever the default is. I'll try bumping it up to 
> 600 and see how it goes.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion 

Wait timeout defaults to 28800 (seconds--which is 8hrs) in MySQL (though 
your distro may have changed your system configuration such that it uses 
something lower).  Bumping from 28800 to 600 won't help.  :)

Mike