At this point, I would not know what else to do except fire up wireshark and start debugging the packets.
Are both servers on the same subnet? Is your DBVisualizer client local to either of these or on the same subnet as one and not another? You mentioned a minor version difference between the servers.. Have you read the relevant release notes between those versions? This looks like an ugly one. I don't envy you. - michael dykman On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:09 PM, William Bulley <w...@umich.edu> wrote: > According to Michael Dykman <mdyk...@gmail.com> on Fri, 02/24/12 at 12:58: >> >> I see your point. Configuration files aside, what do you get when you >> query the servers themselves with: >> >> show variables like 'max_allowed_packet' >> >> There *might* be something in your start-up scripts overriding that >> config setting. > > The query on the 5.1.60 server returned this: > > mysql> show variables like 'max_allowed_packet'; > +--------------------+----------+ > | Variable_name | Value | > +--------------------+----------+ > | max_allowed_packet | 16777216 | > +--------------------+----------+ > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > mysql> > > And from the 5.1.58 server this: > > mysql> show variables like 'max_allowed_packet'; > +--------------------+----------+ > | Variable_name | Value | > +--------------------+----------+ > | max_allowed_packet | 16777216 | > +--------------------+----------+ > 1 row in set (0.01 sec) > > mysql> > > This is what I exepected since the my.cnf files are configured > identically on the two servers as I indicated earlier. > > BTW, this query was run by us yesterday in an attempt to debug > this issue. At this point we were stumped and called it a day. :-( > > Today, I got the less than helpful from the support folks at > DbVisualizer and then I contacted "the MySQL community". :-) > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu > > 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
