Squirrel sql client session timeout

Question

It is not related to whatever version it is, just working to find out how to change (of course increase) session timeout value of Squirrel Sql Client. Because I really get b

Answer 1

I faced the same problem with my local development machine. Since using the driver property "autoReconnect" is discouraged by SQuirreL, I looked for another alternative which fixes the root cause.

I have access to the /etc/mysql/my.cnf directory on my Linux VM, so I could tweak the variable wait_timeout. Previously, it was set to 600 (600 / 60 seconds per minute = 10 minutes). I then set it to 28800 which is the MariaDB default.

After restarting the MySQL server using service mysql restart, everything worked like a charm!