Hibernate/mysql connection issues

Question

We are working on a java struts2 framework webapplication with Hibernate 3 ORM. We use mysql as our database.

We found a some DB related exceptions in logs. Connection to the database is timed out before the configured time. Here are the commons exceptions we found.

104343235 [pool-6-thread-19] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter  - The last packet successfully received from the server was 100,838,460 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 100,838,461 milliseconds ago. is longer than the server configured value of 'wait_timeout'. You should consider either expiring and/or testing connection validity before use in your application, increasing the server configured values for client timeouts, or using the Connector/J connection property 'autoReconnect=true' to avoid this problem.

org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not execute query
    at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:99)
    at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:66)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2536)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2276)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2271)
    at org.hibernate.loader.hql.QueryLoader.list(QueryLoader.java:452)
    at org.hibernate.hql.ast.QueryTranslatorImpl.list(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:363)
    at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.performList(HQLQueryPlan.java:196)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1268)
    at org.hibernate.impl.QueryImpl.list(QueryImpl.java:102)
    at com.myproject.model.dao.entities.EntitiesDAO.getByIds(EntitiesDAO.java:148)

Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: The last packet successfully received from the server was 100,838,460 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 100,838,461 milliseconds ago. is longer than the server configured value of 'wait_timeout'. You should consider either expiring and/or testing connection validity before use in your application, increasing the server configured values for client timeouts, or using the Connector/J connection property 'autoReconnect=true' to avoid this problem.
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor345.newInstance(Unknown Source)104343242 [pool-6-thread-16] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter  - The last packet successfully received from the server was 100,838,544 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 100,838,544 milliseconds ago. is longer than the server configured value of 'wait_timeout'. You should consider either expiring and/or testing connection validity before use in your application, increasing the server configured values for client timeouts, or using the Connector/J connection property 'autoReconnect=true' to avoid this problem.
104343242 [pool-6-thread-16] ERROR org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter  - The last packet successfully received from the server was 100,838,544 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 100,838,544 milliseconds ago. is longer than the server configured value of 'wait_timeout'. You should consider either expiring and/or testing connection validity before use in your application, increasing the server configured values for client timeouts, or using the Connector/J connection property 'autoReconnect=true' to avoid this problem.

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:525)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1117)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3829)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2449)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2629)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2719)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2155)
    at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:2318)
    at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyPreparedStatement.executeQuery(NewProxyPreparedStatement.java:76)
    at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.getResultSet(AbstractBatcher.java:208)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.getResultSet(Loader.java:1953)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:802)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:274)
    at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2533)
    ... 21 more

Everyday we are restarting our app server as a temparory fix to the issue.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

This happens because MySQL server terminates connections with no activity after a timeout. You need to add a few lines to the dbcp configuration Try adding the following parameters :

validationQuery="SELECT 1"
testOnBorrow="true

How it works: The connection-pool tries running validationQuery before returning the connection. If the validationQuesry fails, dbcp discard the connection, creates a new one and return it.

Here's an example:

<Resource   name="jdbc/cooldatabase"
            description="Strandls.com license database"
            auth="Container"
            type="javax.sql.DataSource"
            factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
            driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
            url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/cooldatabase?autoReconnect=true"
            username="cooluser"
            password="coolpassword"
            initialSize="0"
            maxActive="20"
            maxIdle="10"
            minIdle="0"
            maxWait="-1"
            validationQuery="SELECT 1"
            testOnBorrow="true"
            poolPreparedStatements="true"
            removeAbandoned="true"
            removeAbandonedTimeout="60"
            logAbandoned="true"/>

You can find complete details here : http://amitcodes.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/16/

Answer 2

Use connection pool with Hibernate. For example c3p0 https://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToConfigureTheC3P0ConnectionPool.