diff --git a/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml b/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml
index 4c58c2e9..280af1eb 100644
--- a/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml
+++ b/src/main/tomee/conf/tomee.xml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 <!-- 
 	<Resource id="MySQL" type="DataSource">
 		JdbcDriver com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
-		JdbcUrl	jdbc:mysql://localhost/commafeed?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8
+		JdbcUrl	jdbc:mysql://localhost/commafeed?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;autoReconnect=true
 		UserName cf
 		Password cf
-		MaxActive 80
+		MaxActive 40
 	</Resource>
  -->
 	<Container id="CommaFeedStateless" type="STATELESS">