Hbase timeout errors keep occuring

I'm accessing Hbase using happybase with python.

I've a very simple function:

def connect():

    connection = happybase.Connection('myhost',myport)
    table = connection.table('MY-TABLE')
    try:
        return str(table.row('my-row'))
    except Exception as ioe:
        return str(ioe)
    finally:
        connection.close()

When I run this function it works fine for a few minutes, then I start getting timeout errors.

The fix is to go into Hbase console and open a new thrift port, and point to that.

This works again for a few minutes and then I get the timeout errors again.

Not a good fix, any idea why this might be happening?

EDIT

Here is error:

`Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "appi.py", line 38, in <module>
    print connectx()
  File "appi.py", line 26, in connectx
    print str(table.row('1464242429566-2531079631688429'))
  File "C:\Users\me\Downloads\happybase-master\happybase-master\happybase\table.py", line 116, in row
    self.name, row, columns, {})
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\thrift.py", line 160, in _req
    return self._recv(_api)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\thrift.py", line 172, in _recv
    fname, mtype, rseqid = self._iprot.read_message_begin()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\protocol\binary.py", line 372, in read_message_begin
    self.trans, strict=self.strict_read)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\protocol\binary.py", line 164, in read_message_begin
    sz = unpack_i32(inbuf.read(4))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\transport\__init__.py", line 32, in read
    return readall(self._read, sz)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\transport\__init__.py", line 14, in readall
    chunk = read_fn(sz - have)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\transport\buffered\__init__.py", line 39, in _read
    self._rbuf = BytesIO(self._trans.read(max(sz, self._buf_size)))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\thriftpy-0.3.8-py2.7.egg\thriftpy\transport\socket.py", line 108, in read
    buff = self.sock.recv(sz)
socket.timeout: timed out`

Increase the time-out by setting the property in hbase-site.xml which will be available in hbase/conf

<property>
    <name>hbase.regionserver.lease.period</name>
    <value>900000</value> <!-- 900 000, 15 minutes -->
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.rpc.timeout</name>
    <value>900000</value> <!-- 15 minutes -->
  </property>
<property>
    <name>zookeeper.session.timeout</name>
    <value>20000</value>
</property>