This may help:
"You can also get these errors if you send a query to the server that
is incorrect or too large. If mysqld receives a packet that is too
large or out of order, it assumes that something has gone wrong with
the client and closes the connection. If you need big queries (for
example, if you are working with big BLOB columns), you can increase
the query limit by setting the server's max_allowed_packet variable,
which has a default value of 1MB. You may also need to increase the
maximum packet size on the client end. More information on setting the
packet size is given in Section B.5.2.10, ?Packet too large?.
An INSERT or REPLACE statement that inserts a great many rows can also
cause these sorts of errors. Either one of these statements sends a
single request to the server irrespective of the number of rows to be
inserted; thus, you can often avoid the error by reducing the number
of rows sent per INSERT or REPLACE."
From:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html
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