On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Frank Helmschrott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/3/21, Ryan Boren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Background on the lost connection error. > > > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html > > ok - read over that. Though the server used at MT GS is (afaik) a 4.x > > > > I can try cooking up a patch that does a mysql_ping if a query returns > > an errno of CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR or CR_SERVER_LOST. That'll avoid > > doing a mysql_ping every time. I don't know if that will help, but > > it's worth a try. > > Yes probably worth a try but still _only_ a workaround, isn't it? > > Do you know anything about the reason why this error occurs? It sounds > strange to me that such a simple tasks fires anything like timeouts.
It's strange indeed, and I don't know why it happens. We've been seeing quite a few of these "lost connection" and "gone away" errors in the past year, though. #5382, #5951, #5402, and #5932 in trac are some examples. Ryan _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
