On 9/2/05, Eugene Lazutkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I host my Django app on Dreamhost. They provide MySQL. I am getting a weird > MySQL-related error on regular basis: "OperationalError: (2013, 'Lost > connection to MySQL server during query')". > [..] > Can it be Django's problem? One possibility is Django sets some timeout > property on MySQL connection, which is too small. Or default timeout is too > small. Maybe some code should check that connection is alive and > re-establish it, if it is dead.
Hey Eugene, Django doesn't do any sort of timeout, so I suspect it's an error with MySQLdb, the Python MySQL bindings. Which version of MySQLdb is Dreamhost using? To find that out, do this: """ import MySQLdb print MySQLdb.version_info """ Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org
