Broken Pipe after a long duration of inactivity

SQL error getting sparse harvests
SQLException trace:
SQL State:08S01
Error Code:0
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: The last packet successfully received from the server was 80.555.746 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 80.555.747 milliseconds ago. is longer than the server configured value of 'wait_timeout'. You should consider either expiring and/or testing connection validity before use in your application, increasing the server configured values for client timeouts, or using the Connector/J connection property 'autoReconnect=true' to avoid this problem.
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:409)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1122)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3317)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1941)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2114)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2696)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2105)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:2264)
	at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyPreparedStatement.executeQuery(NewProxyPreparedStatement.java:76)
	at dk.netarkivet.harvester.datamodel.HarvestDefinitionDBDAO.getAllSparsePartialHarvestDefinitions(HarvestDefinitionDBDAO.java:942)
	at org.apache.jsp.Definitions_002dselective_002dharvests_jsp._jspService(org.apache.jsp.Definitions_002dselective_002dharvests_jsp:137)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:109)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:389)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:486)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:380)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:401)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:322)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:928)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
	at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228)
	at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
	at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
	at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
	at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
	at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)
	at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123)
	at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.send(MysqlIO.java:3298)
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