== Quote from John Nagle (nagle@animats.com)'s article
> I'm load-testing a dedicated server by making 20 CGI requests
> at the same time, and I'm getting an occasional
> MySQL database error 2013:
> Lost connection to MySQL server during query
> The server is running Linux (Red Hat Fedora 5) and MySQL 5.
> The MySQL server and client are on the same machine, so there shouldn't
> be a network error. MySQL isn't crashing. The requests aren't large
> and each one affects only one table row. About 1 in 50 requests fails.
> 20 simultaneous requests shouldn't be overloading anything, although
> the server does go compute-bound.
> I've read
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gone-away.html
> and none of the problems there seem to apply.
> John Nagle

a couple of things: make sure your conx are on socket (socket file defined in the
my.cnf) and the other is what are you getting in the mysql log files, if you can
post them. finally what kind of engine is the table using. could it be that the
myisam is choking because of concurrency issues.