Error 2006: "MySQL server has gone away" using Python, Bottle Microframework and Apache
- by Jamie
After accessing my web app using:
- Python 2.7
- the Bottle micro framework v. 0.10.6
- Apache 2.2.22
- mod_wsgi
- on Ubuntu Server 12.04 64bit; I'm receiving this error after several hours:
OperationalError: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')
I'm using MySQL - the native one included in Python. It usually happens when I don't access the server. I've tried closing all the connections, which I do, using this:
cursor.close()
db.close()
where db is the standard MySQLdb.Connection() call.
The my.cnf file looks something like this:
key_buffer = 16M
max_allowed_packet = 128M
thread_stack = 192K
thread_cache_size = 8
# This replaces the startup script and checks MyISAM tables if needed
# the first time they are touched
myisam-recover = BACKUP
#max_connections = 100
#table_cache = 64
#thread_concurrency = 10
It is the default configuration file except max_allowed_packet is 128M instead of 16M.
The queries to the database are quite simple, at most they retrieve approximately 100 records.
Can anyone help me fix this? One idea I did have was use try/except but I'm not sure if that would actually work.
Thanks in advance,
Jamie
