Doctrine2 connection timeout in daemon

Question

I have a long running daemon (Symfony2 Command) that gets work off a work queue in Redis, and performs those jobs and writes to the database using the orm.

I noticed

Answer 1

I'm using this in my symfony2 beanstalkd daemon Command worker:

$em = $this->getContainer()->get('doctrine')->getManager();
if ($em->getConnection()->ping() === false) {
    $em->getConnection()->close();
    $em->getConnection()->connect();
}