In article <77c4f5c60801240530r759074c0vd52e5729f8688c42 at mail.gmail.com>, Bent Terp <bent at nagstrup.dk> wrote: > > Just a word of warning: after updating a few of our x86_64 based web > frontend boxes to the new kernel, we began to get weird MySQL > timeouts. The problem went away again when we downgraded to the > previous kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm Your subject line says kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm causes issues with MySQL, but the body of your message says that is the version of kernel that you had to revert to to solve the problems! Could you clarify which kernel version gives problems and which doesn't? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org