[wp-testers] "Categories" 2 bug under the Dashboard.

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Frank Helmschrott
<fhelmschrott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/3/21, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu>:
>
> > 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