Is this error related to connection pool

Rails
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Hi
My environment is
ruby 1.8.6
rails 2.2.2
mysql 5.1
windowsXP

I have a very lengthy controller action which fetch mail from pop
server.
But some times I get error. Mainly three error. And I have to restart
the application again to remove this errors. But after some time the
same errors again happens

  1. Mysql::Error (Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘localhost’ (10048)):
    C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:548:in
    real_connect' C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:548:inconnect’
    C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:198:in
    `initialize’
    ----------------------etc

  2. Mysql::Error (Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘localhost’ (10055)):
    ----------------etc
    C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:74:in
    mysql_connection' C:/Ruby186/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_pool.rb:223:insend’

  3. Errno::ENOTCONN (A request to send or receive data was disallowed
    because the socket is not connected and (when sending on a datagram
    socket using a sendto call) no address was supplied.):
    /lib/pop_ssl.rb:535:in connect' /lib/pop_ssl.rb:535:indo_start’
    /lib/pop_ssl.rb:507:in start' /lib/pop_ssl.rb:382:instart’

Please help to solve this issue