On 3 May 2010 20:46, Charlie Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have deployed a pylons application using mod_wsgi on Apache and everything
> seems to work ok, but after a few hours (18-24ish), the app crashes on every
> request with the error "WebApp Error: sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError:
> (OperationalError) (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')". It is confusing
> because the MySQL server is definitely still live (I can login to it using
> the cmd line with no issues), and restarting it does not fix the problem.
> Only restarting apache resolves the issue. The logs don't provide any
> further insight into what is going on, so I am a bit perplexed as to what
> the problem could be. I'm debating switching my production setup to have
> apache proxy to a paste server, but I would rather fix what is broken than
> change my entire setup.

I had this exact same problem a few years ago. The only solution I
could find was to put a try: except: early on in my line of execution
(like in BaseController.__call__) and run the query again.

>From the extensive scouring of the Internet, it seems to be a known problem.

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