mysql lost connection to mysql server during query

New versions of MySQL WorkBench have an option to change specific timeouts.

For me it was under Edit → Preferences → SQL Editor → DBMS connection read time out (in seconds): 600

Changed the value to 6000.

Also unchecked limit rows as putting a limit in every time I want to search the whole data set gets tiresome.

from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10563619/error-code-2013-lost-connection-to-mysql-server-during-query