From: Date: May 9 2008 10:23am
Subject: [solved] Re: Error reading packet from server: Out of memory (Needed
 6560 bytes) ( server_errno=5)
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Upgrade to 5.0.51b seems to have solved the problem. On wednesday, I saw 
the problem about a dozen times during a peak time. Upgraded wednesday 
night and have not seen the error since.

Thanks
Dominik

Juan Eduardo Moreno wrote:
> Hi,
> This error occur when slave servers could incorrectly interpret an 
> out-of-memory error from the master and reconnect using the wrong binary 
> log position.
>  
> This was fix in 5.0.48 version. Please, try to update your version ( 
> from 5.0.45)  of mysql and try again.
>  
> regards,
> Juan