for some reason when I open a connection the the Percona MySQL database on my HostGator website, after fetching the query, it will disconnect/ close the connection about 10 seconds later.
I typically wouldn't care, but HeidiSQL freezes up, preventing exporting or sorting the returned rows with it's UI unless I connect again.
Any thoughts on making the connection last longer? is it something I can do myself, or will it require a dedicated server or some upgrade? (I'm currently on a shared one). Thanks!
Sounds like it may be the "wait" timeout on the MySQL connection.
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'wait_timeout'
That's the amount of time (in seconds) that MySQL will leave the session (the database connection) open while it's idle, waiting for another statement to be issued. After this amount of time expires, MySQL can close the connection.
You should be able to change this for a session, to change the timeout to 5 minutes
SET wait_timeout = 300
Verify the setting with the SHOW VARIABLES statement again.
NOTE: This is per connection. It only affects the current session. Every new connection will inherit their own wait_timeout value from the global setting.
(This is only a guess. There's insufficient information in the question to make a precise diagnosis. It could be something other than MySQL server that's closing the database connection, e.g. it could be your connection pool settings (if you are using a connection pool).
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I'm looking into aborted connection -
2022-11-21T20:10:43.215738Z 640870 [Note] Aborted connection 640870 to db: '' user: '' host: '10.0.0.**' (Got timeout reading communication packets)
My understanding is that I need to figure out whether it is an interactive or not connection, and increase wait_timeout (or interactive_timeout) accordingly. If it has no effect, then I'll need to adjust net_read_timeout or net_write_timeout and see.
I'd like to ask:
Is there a meta table that I can query for the connection type
(interactive or not)?
There are how-to's on the internet on adjusting wait_timeout (or
interactive_timeout) and all of them have rebooting the database as
the last step. Is that really required? Given that immediate effect
is not required, the sessions are supposed to come and go, and new
sessions will pick up the new value (after the system value is set),
I suppose if there is a way to track how many connections are left
with the old values, then it will be ok?
Finally, can someone suggest any blog (strategy) on handling aborted
connection or adjusting the timeout values?
Thank you!
RDS MySQL version 5.7
There is only one client that sets the interactive flag by default: the mysql command-line client. All other client tools and connectors do not set this flag by default. You can choose to set the interactive flag, because it's a flag in the MySQL client API mysql_real_connect(). So you would know if you did it. In some connectors, you aren't calling the MySQL client API directly, and it isn't even an option to set this flag.
So for practical purposes, you can ignore the difference between wait_timeout and interactive_timeout, unless you're trying to tune the timeout of the mysql client in a shell window.
You should never need to restart the MySQL Server. The timeout means the client closed the session after there has been no activity for wait_timeout seconds. The default value is 28800, which is 8 hours.
The proper way of handling this in application code is to catch exceptions, reconnect if necessary, and then retry whatever query was interrupted.
Some connectors have an auto-reconnect option. Auto-reconnect does not automatically retry the query.
In many applications, you are borrowing a connection from a connection pool, and the connection pool manager is supposed to test the connection before returning it to the caller. For example running SELECT 1; is a common test. The action of testing the connection causes a reconnect if the connection was not used for 8 hours.
If you don't use a connection pool (for example if your client program is PHP, which doesn't support connection pools as far as I know), then your client opens a new connection on request, so naturally it can't be idle for 8 hours if it's a new connection. Then the connection is closed as the request finishes, and presumably this request lasts less than 8 hours.
So this comes up only if your client opens a long-lived MySQL connection that is inactive for periods of 8 hours or more. In such cases, it's your responsibility to test the connection and reopen it if necessary before running a query.
I am using root as username.
My program will refresh every 5 seconds.
What it does is, it query from mysql table and display the data.
Problem is, every after 5 seconds, the connection on mysql will append, reason that it will give an error of "TOO MUCH CONNECTIONS" when it reach the limit.
Is it possible to kill the previous connection since it is unused already?
Here is my code on opening a connection.
connectionPool = connectionPool.getConnectionPool("root", "*****", "");
This is normal behavior if you are using a connection pool. When your job is over be sure that you free the connection instance, or close all pool connections when your code execution is done.
When you are done with a connection, you need to close it. this will return a connection back to the pool.
I get the following error accessing to a MySql Database from Jdbc:
java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: Too many connections
At the same time I am monitoring my connections. I added a counter that counts any opening and closing. The error ouccurs when I get to 380 opened and closed connections within 3 minutes.
Is it possible that it takes some time for MySql to acutally close the connection so that there are still too many opened even though I have send a command to close them?
I am just assuming certain points that might be the reason.
MySql Connections are maintained by MySql Connection Manager so once connection is released Manager will decide to kill that thread or return it back to pool.
In some cases if MySql Resultset is not closed after retrieving data and connection has been close on that time sending it back to pool might have some latency issue.
These two are points that i think might cause that, but i am not sure if these are correct or not.
There could be other reasons that i am not knowing about.
Hope it gives you some idea.
I've a MySQL 5.1.41 Server installed on a Ubuntu machine. I get connected to it through Workbench from my Windows machine over TCP/IP. I run a bigger query, after 900 seconds I got the below message, (there is no wait_timeout defined in the server's configuration file my.cnf)
Error Code: 2013. Lost connection to MySQL server during query
But when I look into the process list by using show processlist; command, I can still see my query running.
I got this link http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html where I found the below lines,
The problem on Windows is that in some cases MySQL does not get an
error from the OS when writing to the TCP/IP connection to the server,
but instead gets the error when trying to read the answer from the
connection.
I'm not sure whether this is the reason for my observation.
Please clarify me on this.
Thanks in advance!!
Closing connection is not a reason to stop a query. A query might be update, or kind of transaction, or select with output to remote (server) file.
Closed connection is just is just means, that you will not receive any data from DBMS after executing query (data, timings - nothing).
The reason of closing connection could be different, as SO-User posted. Try increasing
on server side:
wait_timeout
max_allowed_packet
on client side:
any kinds of timeout you find in your client (i.e. that SO-User suggests)
Do not forget to reload DBMS config and restart client (for sure)
In MySQL WorkBench we have an option to change timeout.
Find it under
Edit → Preferences → SQL Editor → DBMS connection read time out (in seconds): 600
Changed the value to 6000 or something higher.
Update
Lost connection to MySQL server
There are three likely causes for this error message.
Usually it indicates network connectivity trouble and you should check
the condition of your network if this error occurs frequently. If the
error message includes “during query,” this is probably the case you
are experiencing.
Sometimes the “during query” form happens when millions of rows are
being sent as part of one or more queries. If you know that this is
happening, you should try increasing net_read_timeout from its default
of 30 seconds to 60 seconds or longer, sufficient for the data
transfer to complete.
More rarely, it can happen when the client is attempting the initial
connection to the server. In this case, if your connect_timeout value
is set to only a few seconds, you may be able to resolve the problem
by increasing it to ten seconds, perhaps more if you have a very long
distance or slow connection. You can determine whether you are
experiencing this more uncommon cause by using SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE
'Aborted_connects'. It will increase by one for each initial
connection attempt that the server aborts. You may see “reading
authorization packet” as part of the error message; if so, that also
suggests that this is the solution that you need.
If the cause is none of those just described, you may be experiencing
a problem with BLOB values that are larger than max_allowed_packet,
which can cause this error with some clients. Sometime you may see an
ER_NET_PACKET_TOO_LARGE error, and that confirms that you need to
increase max_allowed_packet.
Doc link: Error lost connection
and also check here
connection to mysql is getting lost after 8 hours ( i.e afer wait_timeout varibale times out). i am trying to use mysql_ping() to reconnect to the server but ping gives me Mysql server gone away error. I am using sql version 5.1. so i am not using mysql_options() to enable the reconnect flag as mysql_real_connect() sets it to 0. I am explicitly setting the reconnect flag to 1 like mysql_Conn->reconnect =1; after calling mysql_real_connect().
But mysqlping doesn't work. The reconnection is not happening. Kindly advice.
Thanks in advance
Instead of trying to ping the connection back to life after it's dropped, far better to ping it periodically at about half the idle disconnect time (4 hours in your case) to keep it alive.
If the ping fails, drop the connection explicitly and reconnect.
Also, you might want to add something like this to your /etc/my.cnf:
[mysqld]
wait_timeout=400000
The timeout is in seconds, so this is about four and a half days, long enough to keep a connection alive over a long weekend while no one is using your system.