I changed some settings on the userbase mysql installation that I hope help alleviate these symptoms. Basically, I added boosted values for the key_buffer and query_cache, as they were still set at the system defaults (which I believe assume a 1GB system memory, we have 4GB). Ken Raffenetti Systems Administration Associate MCS Division - Argonne National Laboratory On 06/20/2012 07:42 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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