Steven Davis

Update – I changed the setting to “Disable Notifications for all users except admin” and emails seem to working so far.

My problem is even though the MySQL setting is max_allowed_packet=1073741824, planet.www.remarpro.com manages to cause a database error “Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes for query INSERT INTO wpfh1_options“.

I’ve used WordPress for eight years but this problem only started a few months ago.

• This reply was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by Steven Davis.

Thank you for the response. The packet size has been increased.

I do not have any specific caching plugins except WP-Optomize. The only other plugin, I am aware of, that uses caching is Smart Slider. I cleared the caches in Smart Slider and WP-Optomize.

My site has slowed down after the last few WP upgrades. No idea why as I have not added / changed any pages or added any plugins. I did have a few large packet errors, this year, which I have not seen in the previous eight years of using WP.

“WordPress database error Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes for query UPDATE wpfh1_options SET option_value.”

These packet errors range in size from 2,101kb to 10,151kb in size.