Posted by Alex on 02/17/06 23:55

I think even if your server is overloaded, is this happening every
time, every day, every minute? is your site getting a massive number
of hits?

I have seen before when you leave connections open, result sets not
freed, etc. this memory is not necessarily reallocated or destroyed and
thus everytime the system needs to allocate more memory for your PHP
script it may need to swap some to the disk, and this would cause your
latency. Remember to close all your connects and free all of your
result sets.

Alex
http://prepared-statement.blogspot.com

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