MySQL Communication link failure

[rpmon]

I have recently setup a MySQL 4.1.12 database on FreeBSD. I connect to the
database using Coldfusion on a Windows 2003 computer. The database seems to be
working fairly well, about 95% of the time. The other time it gives me the
error below and i have no idea what to do.

I can't tell if it is MySQL or the connector i am using
(mysql-connector-java-3.0.16-ga-bin.jar). Any ideas at what to try or do to
get this working?




Error Detail:
Communication link failure: java.io.EOFException, underlying cause: null

** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **

java.io.EOFException

STACKTRACE:

java.io.EOFException
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:1394 )
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO. java:1538)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.ja va:1929)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:11 67)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java :1278)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQuery(MysqlIO.java:1224)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.execSQL(Connection.java: 2248)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.execSQL(Connection.java: 2196)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Statement.execute(Statement.java:90 6)
at coldfusion.server.j2ee.sql.JRunStatement.execute(J RunStatement.java:212)
at coldfusion.sql.Executive.executeQuery(Executive.ja va:974)
at coldfusion.sql.Executive.executeQuery(Executive.ja va:886)
at coldfusion.sql.SqlImpl.execute(SqlImpl.java:229)
at coldfusion.tagext.sql.QueryTag.doEndTag(QueryTag.j ava:44...

[rpmon]

I am still having this issue but it seems to happen only if the server is idle
for more than 5 minutes.

I have a scheduled task running to check the server status. If i set it to
recur every 5 minutes i do not see this error again. Is there some place i
need to change a time out setting for this connector?