maximize memory usage for mysql and mysql server has gone away error

Hi all,

I have a problem with configuring my.ini file. I am trying to assign all the memory available on the machine to mysql. Right now I used MySQL Instant Config Wizard to create ini file which is shown below and the database is Innodb. With this config, MySQL is very stable but it is only using about 1.3GB of memory. Widnows/other process is using 1GB which leaves about 1.7GB is still not used.
The problem is when I increase innodb_buffer_pool_size, mysql returns following error and halts as soon as I run any query or command.

Error Code : 2006
MySQL server has gone away

I also increased max_allowed_packet because this may cause this error, but didn’t work for me. Dose anyone have ideas how I can increase mysql memory use?

Server OS: windows server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP2
RAM: 4.00GB (believe or not this 32bit windows recognizes all 4GB)
CPU: Intel Xeon E5320
MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt


This is my.ini

[client]

port=3306

[mysql]

default-character-set=utf8

[mysqld]

port=3306

basedir=“C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.0/”

datadir=“C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.0/Data/”

default-character-set=utf8

default-storage-engine=INNODB

sql-mode=" STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTI ON "
max_connections=100
query_cache_size=0
table_cache=256
tmp_table_size=185M
thread_cache_size=8

key_buffer_size=32M
read_buffer_size=64K
read_rnd_buffer_size=256K
sort_buffer_size=256K

innodb_data_home_dir=“D:/MySQL InnoDB Datafiles/”
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=25M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2
innodb_log_buffer_size=12M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=1172M
innodb_log_file_size=586M


This is MySQL server’s status

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