Topic: mysql "Got an error reading communication packets"

[sah62]

I get SMF database aborted connection warning messages like this fairly frequently in my mysql error log:

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2019-10-23 15:31:42 12430 [Warning] Aborted connection 12430 to db: 'smf' user: 'user' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets)
I have the mysql max_allowed_packet value set to 64M, but I really don't know if increasing that value is what's needed to address this issue. Any tips?

[Illori]

are you the host or do you have a host that manages your server?

[sah62]

I'm running the site on a Linode VM for which I have full shell access.

[sah62]

Another clue: I noticed this warning in my php-fpm log at the same time:

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[29-Oct-2019 15:52:52] WARNING: [pool mypool] child 8629 exited on signal 7 (SIGBUS - core dumped) after 3197.032572 seconds from start

There's a corresponding warning in the mysql error log:

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2019-10-29 15:52:52 31459 [Warning] Aborted connection 31459 to db: 'smf' user: 'user' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets)

There's a php-fpm apport crash report file in /var/crash, but without symbols I can't see a meaningful stack trace.

[sah62]

More clues from my nginx log:

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2019/10/29 15:52:52 [error] 1244#1244: *105640 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 155.178.180.11, server: mysite.org, request: "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=26837.0;attach=18821;image HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm-mysite.sock:", host: "www.mysite.org", referrer: "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=26837.30"

and

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155.178.180.11 - - [29/Oct/2019:15:52:52 -0400] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=26837.0;attach=18821;image HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=26837.30" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.75 Safari/537.36"

Aha, a 502 error! The last answer found on this page might be helpful:

https://serverfault.com/questions/543999/nginx-errors-recv-failed-104-connection-reset-by-peer-while-reading-respon/782128

I had the memory_limit variable set to 128M in my php-fpm configuration. I just tried upping it to 256M. We'll see if that makes a difference.

[sah62]

Upping memory_limit to 256M didn't help. Setting

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output_buffering = On seems to be doing the trick, though. There haven't been any warnings for the past several hours.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22697584/nginx-uwsgi-104-connection-reset-by-peer-while-reading-response-header-from-u

There may be some optimal value to use that's less than the "no limit" you get with "On" (the default is 4096 bytes), but I haven't done any experimentation to see what will work in my environment.

[sah62]

I'm still seeing these 502 errors every so often. They all appear to be related to image processing. More examples:

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<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:10:45:23 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27033.0;attach=19331;image HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27033.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18363"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:12:58:51 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=8516;type=avatar HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=26983.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:14:10:43 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27033.0;attach=19337;image HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27033.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:14:52:14 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=10808;type=avatar HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27028.0;topicseen" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:16:20:39 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=15181;type=avatar HTTP/1.1" 502 182 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27028.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:18:38:41 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27032.0;attach=19345;image HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27032.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.117 Safari/537.36"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:19:27:10 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27058.0;attach=19393;image HTTP/1.1" 502 182 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27058.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
<address> - - [13/Jan/2020:22:00:47 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27044.0;attach=19355;image HTTP/1.1" 502 182 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=27044.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/21.0 Version/13.0.3 Safari/605.1.15"
<address> - - [14/Jan/2020:00:16:21 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=10809;type=avatar HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=24730.105" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18363"
<address> - - [14/Jan/2020:00:16:21 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24730.0;attach=15630;image HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?topic=24730.105" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18363"
<address> - - [14/Jan/2020:09:56:33 -0500] "GET /forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=94u8rk5ttviq6fv7abnhu9rmdl&action=dlattach;topic=27058.0;attach=19389;image HTTP/1.1" 502 584 "https://www.mysite.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=94u8rk5ttviq6fv7abnhu9rmdl&topic=27058.0" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; Trident/6.0; MDDCJS)"

Note the action passed to index.php: "action=dlattach", with each error associated with an avatar or an image attached to a topic. Is there a clue here?

[Illori]

which version of SMF are you using?

[sah62]

which version of SMF are you using?

2.0.17 with PHP 7.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 with nginx/1.14.0.

[vbgamer45]

I would suggest this optimization
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293441.0
#1 move avatars to a custom location and then move existing ones as well

[sah62]

I would suggest this optimization
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293441.0
#1 move avatars to a custom location and then move existing ones as well

OK, done, thanks for the tip. I'll let things run for a bit to see what happens.

[sah62]

I would suggest this optimization
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293441.0
#1 move avatars to a custom location and then move existing ones as well

OK, done, thanks for the tip. I'll let things run for a bit to see what happens.

Approximately 22 hours of run time and I haven't seen any more errors. Thanks!