[Maria-developers] doubt, Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes - 1153

Hi guys, i'm with a doubt now... using the php extension of mysql i got this error Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes - 1153 the point is... should the client api change the packet to a size smaller than max limit? or should i set the max_allowed_packet at server side? this variable have some memory problem if changed to a big value? today i'm using 1MB, but i don't know if i change for example to 1024MB i could break the server, does the max_allowed_packet just a limit, or a malloc parameter to alloc memory at each packet? -- Roberto Spadim SPAEmpresarial