2006 - MySQL server has gone away

[blioux]

Everything was going good for a couple of months now then all of a sudden, read 'no changes', when i attempt to access the 'store' side it chugs away for a while then I get the message below. This does not happen when accessing categories/products thru the 'admin' side.

cache_data looks a bit big to me... not sure what it should look like though...

I actually just previewed this post and cache_data is way to big so I'm ommitting almost all of it... should it be that big?

i realise that it must be a server timeout or something like that but why did it start all of a sudden?

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2006 - MySQL server has gone away

insert into cache (cache_id, cache_language_id, cache_name, cache_data, cache_global, cache_gzip, cache_method, cache_date, cache_expires) values ('9e18319fdade9c4245b75b9845486bb8', '1', 'seo_urls_products', 'tP3LkuvKsiyK9fUVt3ckM8GsWO8y2WnI7lVTD5NJ7W0gCVZhF klw8VGP+UHqrJ/...', '1', '1', 'EVAL', '2006-01-11 04:11:16', '2006-02-10 04:11:16')

[blioux]

Anyone able to help me out?

Kinda stuck here....

[bkpie]

Have you checked your cache settings in admin and SEO url?

[blioux]

Use Cache is set to false

Enable SEO URLs is set to false

These were always the settings....

I set the 'max_allowed_packet' setting in my.ini to 16M and this corrected it but why did it blowup like that... why is it even using it?