--snip-- > ---- > sounds sleepy - perhaps the mysql connections drop after inactivity and > then it takes that long to connect > > You might just want to set up a cron script that does a curl or wget of > a standard page every 2 minutes or so just to keep things active. > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > hmmm.... you may be onto something there, Craig. Since it was the same environment (we set up lots of LAMP servers and use a common MySQL backend) I gave it the benefit of the doubt when I was initially troubleshooting (the connection was there and everything looked sane). I'll take another look at that. Thanks. Dave