On 8/16/07, Nigel Pearson <nigel at ind.tansu.com.au> wrote: > Anything that uses TCP will take ages (minutes on most OSs). Indeed. My own similar test had even worse results: error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query' real 3m9.004s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.004s Three minutes is a long time. :) -- Joe Ripley vitaminjoe at gmail.com