Posted by Baron Schwartz |

Yesterday I helped someone who was seeing a lot of "server has gone away" error messages on his website. While investigating this problem, I noticed several things amiss, which appeared to be related but really weren't. The biggest measurable sign was

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  1. [percona@server ~]$ mysqladmin ext | grep Abort
  2. | Aborted_clients                | 14835        |
  3. | Aborted_connects               | 15598        |

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