From: List Man Date: November 3 2011 8:37pm Subject: setting max_allowed_packet dynamically problem List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/226225 Message-Id: <24F498C4-BCAC-4902-A469-4F59B008CFA6@bluejeantime.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-3-595545332 --Apple-Mail-3-595545332 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am running Server version: 5.1.45-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) and = I attempted to change max packet with the following: SET GLOBAL = max_allowed_packet=3D16*1024*1024; but it did not work properly. The = configuration did not change by using the show variables command. I = changed the configuration file (my.cnf) and restarted the server and the = variable stayed the same. Does anyone have any ideas? LS --Apple-Mail-3-595545332--