When I runed a 32M database file in phpmyadmin, I got this error in the screen.
#1153 - Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
There is a good way to fix this problem. Open the my.cnf file in the mysql install path. (Because I install the lampp, so I just modify this file /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf)
change the lines:
max_allowed_packet = 128M #as much as you want.
And then, remember to restart the mysql server.
Have fun :)