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Subject: Re: [Slashcode] SQL Error in 1.0.2 while Querying for AnonymousCoward
From: Ben Teitelbaum <ben@internet2.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 10:49:48 -0400
Chris Nandor wrote:
>
> At 14.33 -0400 2000.05.16, Ben Teitelbaum wrote:
> >Whatzup? Is the nickname/matchname mismatch a problem?
>
> I don't know. What I do know is that I made it so that code is only
> executed every once in a while (hopefully only when each httpd is first
> started up), so hopefully it won't happen so much. I cannot find any such
> errors in our Apache error logs on Slashdot. You can edit your own
> Slash.pm, find that code and add "unless $I{anon_name}" to that line in
> Slash::getSlash().
Thanks. I still don't understand this 100%, but I have a
fix: increasing the "wait_timeout" parameter on my mysql
server from 200 to 500 made the errors go away.
Not sure if this was the server's fault for closing the
connection too soon, DBI's fault for not attempting to
reconnect, or what.
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