MySQL Bugs: #2400: Connection failure with wait

Bug #2400	Connection failure with wait_timeout > 2147483
Submitted:	15 Jan 2004 9:10	Modified:	3 Feb 2004 11:44
Reporter:	Lars-Goran Forsberg	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	4.0.17	OS:	Windows (Windows 2000)
Assigned to:	Michael Widenius	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When the MySQL server is configured with wait_timeout larger than 2147483, client connections are lost if they are idle for more than ~0.5 seconds. Same behaviour with both JDBC client and mysql client.
If queries are executed repeatedly without any delay between them, the connection seems to stay alive.

Setting wait_timeout to higher values worked with 4.0.13 and earlier versions, and seems to work for HP-UX binaries.

How to repeat:
Install MySQL 4.0.17 on Windows.
Start the mysqld process (either as service or standalone).
Connect to server using the mysql.exe client.
Execute "set wait_timeout=2147484;".
Wait a second.
Execute some other query, for example "show databases;".
The result for this query should be: "ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query"
Execute "show variables;" and it will show that the wait_timeout variable is reset to the value set at server start.

The other way is to configure my.cnf with the wait_timeout variable set to 2147484. This will cause every client connection to be lost if not queries are repeated with very short intervals.

Suggested fix:
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Thank you for the bug report I was able to repeat.

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Additional info:

I have now limited the wait_timeout on windows to 2147483 seconds.