Increase MySQL Idle Timeout

Have you ever experienced an read ECONNRESET error in FaxStore or another product? Well, there is a way to fix this. By default MySQL uses an idle timeout which forces a connection to close if a query hasn't been ran in the set amount of time. Generally by default this is 8 hours.

So here's how to increase this limit.

1. Navigate to /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d

2. Open the file named mysqld.cnf and find the wait_timeout setting, add it if needed.

3. Increase this limit to a higher amount, the value is in seconds.

Example; 3153600 is 36 days.

wait_timeout = 3153600

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