mariadb/mysql database (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

I think I'm experiencing an issue related to: https://github.com/django/channels/issues/1234 where I get (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') after trying to establish a new channels connection with calls using database_sync_to_async(). I have set my Django DB CONN_MAX_AGE to 300 (5 minutes) an

Re: mariadb/mysql database (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away')

I'm still having this issue, and it definitely seems Channels related. When the issue occurs, I can logout/login and do other things on the Django only portion of the site. As soon as I try to make DB requests from within a Channels consumer, the error pops up. Restarting the Daphne server resol