very large query, Error Code: 2013. Lost connection to MySQL server during query

[ed ziffel]

Have table with just under 200meg records. When trying to do queries to sort all records even by one condition get Error Code: 2013. Lost connection to MySQL server during query.

Check on web some and ran:

mysql> show variables like "%timeout%";
+----------------------------+-------+
| Variable_name              | Value |
+----------------------------+-------+
| connect_timeout            | 10    |
| delayed_insert_timeout     | 300   |
| innodb_lock_wait_timeout   | 50    |
| innodb_rollback_on_timeout | OFF   |
| interactive_timeout        | 28800 |
| net_read_timeout           | 30    |
| net_write_timeout          | 60    |
| slave_net_timeout          | 3600  |
| table_lock_wait_timeout    | 50    |
| wait_timeout               | 28800 |
+----------------------------+-------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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Using Ubuntu linux 10.04lts.  The server is on the local machine.  Did not see where to change these values as in which file.  Also do not what to play "guess-a-setting".  Can someone point me in the right direction and give me a hint or two about what settings to change and to what?

Thanks