Hello, I am experiencing a problem with aborted connections to the db. In essence, I have an web-based application writing large amounts of data to a mysql database. The error seems to occur randomly. The only reproducible part of the problem seems to be that the bigger the data set the more likely the error is to occur. The error message in the log is: <date> <time> Aborted connection <connection_number> to db: <database> user: <user> host: <host> (Got an error reading communication packets) The server is running Linux (2.2.15-4mdksmp), mysql 3.23.25-beta, and Apache 1.3.12 Checking the newsgroups has not been particulary helpful. The two main responses seem to be: upgrade the version of mySQL or the problem is a network problem. Can someone confirm whether this is a hardware problem or MySQL version problem and/or point me in the right direction to dealing sucessfully with this error? Thanks for your help Jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php